description: In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: La Montana Magica
titlecomplete: La Montana Magica
characters: Joachim Ziemssen, Clavdia Chauchat, Hans Castorp, Hermine Kleefeld, Ludovico Settembrini, Pieter Peeperkorn
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, Novels, German Literature, Germany, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 47387
places: Italy, Davos, Germany, Switzerland, Hamburg
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: John E. Woods
publisher: Debolsillo