num_pages: 854
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: English
title: The Magic Mountain
titlecomplete: The Magic Mountain
characters: Joachim Ziemssen, Ludovico Settembrini, Hermine Kleefeld, Clavdia Chauchat, Hans Castorp, Pieter Peeperkorn
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Philosophy, German Literature, Nobel Prize, Germany, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 47402
places: Switzerland, Hamburg, Germany, Italy, Davos
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: John E. Woods
publisher: Everyman's Library