The rooms are comfortable, the view is magnificent, the food delicious. Wrapped in wool blankets, the well-heeled guests of a sanatorium spend their days resting on the balconies. Welcome to the ...
What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain? Thomas Mann, from behind, 1930. Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, famously spends seven years at a tuberculosis ...
Life before Covid-19 feels like a century ago and yesterday at the same time. Everything is happening around us, but so little of it happens to us. It may be tempting to look backward to figure out ...
Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney This month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century’s towering literary ...
A divided society, existential fears and the specter of war: Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain" is still frighteningly relevant a century after its first publication. This is the setting that ...
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