As a utopian city Saint Petersburg neutralises the difference between death and life. Death in Saint Petersburg literary discourse as in any other utopian discourse cannot be experienced as a process, you can just find yourself in one state or another alive or dead. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. Death is always present in the novel, in which a young engineer, Hans Castorp, visiting a cousin in a sanatorium in Davos, abandons practical life to submit to the rich seductions of disease, inwardness, and death. Notwithstanding the presence of death, the socialisation of an act of dying is forbidden according to the unwritten rules of the sanatorium.
Public death is considered to be beyond the limits of decency and disapproved by everyone.
On the turn of the 20 th century many Russian writers promoted the Wheel of Life concept. In the twilight between life and death begins with the death of the main character and ends with his rebirth in a new body. The author depicts the main stages of the disembodied existence of the soul, expressing a cyclical view of the time process, and produces esoteric explanations of how the soul becomes reborn into a physical body. As any other revolution the October revolution in Russia abolished the absence of alienation. The possibility of alienation in any place coursed a great variety of the protocols of dying in the twenties and the thirties of the 20 th century.