The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - Part III

Our Theme Book this year is The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, using the John E. Wood translation.

My copy is a paperback with very small printing, so our pages probably won't match. For the second discussion, please read Section 5, through to the end of the Chapter "A Good Soldier."

"With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an “ordinary young man” who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas."
~ Quotation from KCLS website

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