Ratings
Rated: 6 times. Average rating 4.50
Description
Flooded with feeling, with powerful evocations of disease, with the glories of the natural world and inklings of the supernatural, The Magic Mountain is equally remarkable for Mann's treatment of time - the "flatland time" of healthy, active people and the "inelastic present" of the "people up here," for whom illness is a lifelong career. Mann is a master at drawing dazzling characters with the finest irony: Settembrini, the impassioned Italian liberal, and Naphta, the caustic Jewish Jesuit, whose opposing worldviews trap them in a grotesque duel; Mynheer Peeperkorn, the enormously wealthy Dutch planter whose garrulous "personality" all but overwhelms his fellow patients; the blustery Director Behrens and subtle Dr.
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- Buddenbrooks (1994)
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- Royal Highness (1992)
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- Doctor Faustus (1999)
- The Magic Mountain (1996)
- Death in Venice, and Seven Other Stories (1989)
- The Black Swan (1990)
