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A brief visit to a Swiss sanatorium becomes a life-altering seven-year odyssey.
Hans Castorp arrives at a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin, intending to stay for just three weeks. But when he falls ill, he remains and is drawn in by the introspection and erudition that define life in the mountains. As his stay extends to seven transformative years, Hans falls in love and becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic – ideas which will strain and crack apart in a world on the verge of the First World War.
‘Magnificent… a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love’ Jonathan Coe, Guardian
‘The greatest German novelist of the 20th century’ Spectator
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Magnificent… a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love
Guardian
Featuring lengthy debates between humanist freemasons and Jews-turned-Catholics, a long love-scene written entirely in French and a brilliant hallucinatory journey down the snowy slopes, it merits multiple readings. A novel for a lifetime not just a rainy afternoon
Guardian
A monumental writer
Sunday Telegraph
The greatest German novelist of the 20th century
Spectator
Mann is Germany's outstanding modern classic, a decadent representative of the tradition of Goethe and Schiller. With his famous irony, he was up there with Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud, holding together the modern world with a love of art and imagination to compensate for the emptiness left by social and religious collapse.
Independent
A life-altering book would be The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. It's really thick and German. I like its sensibility, which is unashamedly intellectual.
Observer
A masterwork, unlike any other… a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new way of seeing
Comparisons arise with The Waste Land, published two years earlier and also concerned to exhibit the futility of a way of life which had led to the horrors of the First World War. But while T. S. Eliot's poem is a pared-down epic of resonances and allusions, Mann's novel is a full-blown exploration, playing seemingly endless variations on the theme
Sunday Telegraph
The most life-changing novel
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| Weight | 0.516 kg |
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| Dimensions | 198 × 128 × 46 cm |
