num_pages: 706
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: Clavdia Chauchat, Joachim Ziemssen, Pieter Peeperkorn, Ludovico Settembrini, Hans Castorp, Hermine Kleefeld
genres: Germany, 20th Century, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 47395
places: Davos, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Hamburg
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: John E. Woods
publisher: Vintage