{"product_id":"the-magic-mountain-paperback","title":"The Magic Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Thomas Mann\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by John E. Woods\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In Mann's work the historic and contemporary retains its outsideness. He is a Wagnerian spellbinder, a mythmaker, but the myth always refers back to the real world.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e taught me that big ideas have vitality, that intellectual life could make for great storytelling, and that the map of an age could be found in the personalities of the people who lived it, lessons that I carried into the writing of history. But the truth is, I have returned again and again to \u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e because the characters who inhabit it are such delightful company.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e] is one of those works that changed the shape and possibilities of European literature. It is a masterwork, unlike any other. It is also, if we learn to read it on its own terms, a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new way of seeing.\"—A. S. Byatt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelist, ultimately winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. In \u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this hermetic yet intrigue-ridden world comes Hans Castorp, a \"perfectly ordinary\" young man who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying seven years. For on the Magic Mountain, Hans will succumb to both the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas. \u003cem\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.neuegalerie.org\/shop\/collections\/bookstore-books-in-german\/products\/der-zauberberg\"\u003eGerman\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e706 pages\u003cbr\u003eVintage International, 1996\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1924\u003cbr\u003e5.2 x 1.2 x 8 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780679772873\u003cbr\u003eExistentialism, Satire, Historical Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":6048116165,"sku":"9780679772873","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Mann_The_Magic_Mountain.jpg?v=1634932376","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-magic-mountain-paperback","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}