The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann • 1924
Devastation Rating
philosophical literary fiction historical loss
Our Take
Hans Castorp arrives at a sanatorium for three weeks and stays seven years while Europe prepares to destroy itself. Mann writes time as something you can lose without noticing, and the mountain is a place where the dying and the philosophising have become indistinguishable.
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