Through ravines and gullies and past magnificent vistas of ineffable, The train bears Hans through the Swiz Alps, wending its way ever-upwards Hans is taking a 3 week break from his professionĪs shipping engineer in order to visit his consumptive cousin Joachim. Journey to the International Sanatorium Berghof is Hans Castorp the The years immediately prior to the Great War. So begins The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann s 900 page meditation on life, loveĪnd death, set in the rarefied confines of a sanatorium for tuberculosis during His way from his hometown of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the canton of Graubunden. Turned into a dwarf and imprisoned inside a mountain where seven years pass as Order to partake in the Witches Sabbath& in Wagner`s Tannh user the Venusberg (Venus Mountain) is a place of dire temptation&Īnd in Wilhelm Hauff s 1826 fairy tale, Der In Goethe`s Faust the titular hero is led up the Brocken by Mephistophles in Is a tradition of enchanted mountains in German folklore and literature which Mann s post-War views on civilization and society. Magic Mountain began in 1912, was interrupted by the Great War, and wasn tĬompleted until 1924 by which time it ran to over 900 pages and incorporated

Intended as short and comic reworking of Mann s novella Death in Venice, work on The Mann wrote years later in the afterword to the novel, who knows, I might still Hero of his novel, Mann himself was diagnosed as tubercular by one of theĭoctors and advised to stay on as a patient. Mann when visiting his wife in a sanatorium at Davos, Switzerland. Sanatorium in the Swizz Alps for a planned stay of 3 weeks and ends up staying 7 Decade before the Great War a young man visits his tubercular cousin at a

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