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The Magic Mountain
by: Thomas Mann

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780394704975
ISBN: 0394704975
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 727
Publication Date: August 12, 1969
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: August 12, 1969
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 474322

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Product Description:
A vast intellectual drama of the forces that play upon modern man, The Magic Mountain is set in a sanitorium in the Swiss Alps--a community organized with exclusive reference to ill health, and a symbol of the diseased society of Europe before 1914.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Great read in more ways than one
You can see a summary of the plot of the book in mostly every other review about this book. What I did not found was the fantastic way of the author to tell several stories in several levels at the same time. For the straight thinker, the story might be closer to a Seinfeld episode than a literary masterpiece... a story about nothing. Even at this basic (first line level), the book is worth reading, with every chapter narrating a different short story worth reading in itself like separate Seinfeld chapters, with some common characters and some new ones introduced in most of them. The author was nice enough to even explicitly reflect on some of his ideas about "time" at this level making even the most linear thinker reflect and grow about this interesting subject. For me, however, The ... Read More

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- Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
At the risk of being labelled a Philistine, I declare that this book is one of the most insufferably boring tomes that has ever made it onto my bedside table. I admit that I only struggled my way through the first 170 pages, but that was enough to convince me that I should not waste any more minutes of my precious life wading through any more of this drivel.

I know, I have also been chastised for criticising modern art in the same way. Tracey Emin's "Unmade Bed" and Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" will just have to live in the pile of junk that I fail to understand.

I realise that I am in the minority, as most reviewers and professors of literature believe this to be a masterpiece, and probably the best book to come out of Germany in the twentieth century. Then ... Read More

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- Death and Amusement in the Mountains
The Magic Mountain is a renowned classic of twentieth century literature, especially German and European literature. As a book, it is moderate to easy to read, and I highly recommend the novel. It is easier to read than some of Mann's other works. I recently purchased and read this exact novel as shown.

The novel is set near Davos, Switzerland, just before the outbreak of World War I. The story was inspired by Mann's own visit to a clinic in Davos when his wife was admitted to a similar clinic when she was suffering from a lung ailment.

Without giving away the plot, the story is about a young man, Hans Castorp who comes to the mountain clinic for a brief visit to see a relative, a man of a similar age, who is a patient. He becomes caught up in clinic life. Mann uses ... Read More

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- Unique in reading experiences
Just to be clear, I've only read the Lowe-Porter translation, though I plan at some point to follow Mann's advice and give it a once-again with the new Woods version. For those not accustomed to fairly dense or philosophical works of fiction, the task here presented to the reader will likely prove new and exciting. I'm not going to say "difficult" or "intimidating" because, with a bit of patience and intelligence, the novel is accessible and even enjoyable in a certain idiosyncratic way.

The Lowe-Porter translation is certainly worth the time as long as one is willing to entertain the idea of paragraph-length sentences and multi-clause complexes loaded with such devices as are available to the would-be Germanizer of the English language: commas, dashes, semicolons, ellipses... mostly ... Read More

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- Al Gore, Yassar Arafat, and Magic Mountain...
...What are three reasons why the Nobel Prize is utterly meaningless Alex!

Holy crud, I just finished reading Magic Mountain about 5 minutes ago and want to get this review out while I still have the taste in my mouth. There's some great 1-star reviews for this book that I doubt I'll ever be able to top...but I'll try anyways.

What the book lacks in character development, ideas, and psychological analysis it more than makes up for in utter pointlessness. A more unfeeling, disinterested, atomized novel you will not find. Mann writes like a man detached from the world; he's incapable of giving a cohesive structure to multiple ideas and moving them in a single direction. In a word, it's a novel without purpose, more or less a collection of seemingly random, meaningless ... Read More

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