TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mann Thomas 
TI  - The magic mountain
SN  - 9780749386429
U1  - 833.91 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Britian
PB  - Vintage
N1  - 	I. Arrival --; II. Of the christening basin, and of Grandfather in his twofold guise --; III. Drawing the veil; IV. Necessary purchases; V. Soup everlasting; VI. Changes; VII. By the ocean of time
N2  - A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death
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