Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: As a child, this novel's protagonist requested that a senator show him a family baptismal bowl, and another character gives endless lectures on how love is the cause of sufferings. The protagonist recalls how a childhood friend once lent him a pencil, and in one scene he dreams up a paradise while stranded outside in a storm. The nickname Rhadamanthus is applied to Director Behrens, and the protagonist falls for Clavdia even though she slams doors. Leo Naphta partakes in philosophical debates with his rival Settembrini, while this novel's central character originally comes to Switzerland to visit his cousin Joachim. FTP, identify this novel about Hans Castorp's seven-year stay in a sanatorium, by Thomas Mann.
A:
Literature