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La acción de esta novela transcurre en un sanatorio de tuberculosos en Zauberberg, que recientemente ha sido noticia por su cierre definitivo, donde coinciden dos primos de caracteres muy distintos. Más que en los sucesos (el conocimiento con Clavdia Chauchat o con una pareja de peculiares y enfrentados pensadores, los pequeños conflictos generados por la convivencia entre personajes de muy distinta procedencia, el goteo constante de fallecimientos, etc.), el interés de la novela reside en la perfecta reproducción de la vida interior, afectiva e intelectual, de la amplia galería de personajes que despliega Mann ante los ojos del lector, todos ellos perfectamente individualizados e interesantes por sí mismos. A partir de ahí, las reflexiones sobre temas muy diversos que van desde la política hasta la estética, pasando por la naturaleza del tiempo, aportan una visión panorámica de la Europa de la época, con una profundidad realmente extraordinaria en la literatura de todos los tiempos.
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Fiction, Sanatoriums, German fiction, Translations into English, Philosophy, Civilization, Special Hospitals, Fictional Works, Tuberculosis, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, coming of age, Germany, fiction, Fiction, general, Literature, Ficción, Sanatorios, German language materials, Criticism and interpretationPeople
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)Places
Germany, Davos, SwitzerlandTimes
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The magic mountain: a novel
1996, Vintage International
in English
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The magic mountain =: Der Zauberberg
1992, Vintage Books
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The magic mountain
1992, The Modern Library
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Der Zauberberg: Roman
1967, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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"AN ORDINARY YOUNG MAN was on his way from his hometown of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the canton of Graubunden."
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One of the most influential and celebrated German works of the 20th century has been newly rendered in English by Woods, twice winner of the PEN Translation Prize. First published in 1929, Mann's novel tells the story of Hans Castorp, a modern everyman who spends seven years in an Alpine sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, finally leaving to become a soldier in World War I. Isolated from the concerns of the everyday world, he is exposed to the wide range of ideas that shaped a world on the verge of explosion. Considering what was to follow, the most poignant moment comes when Naphta, a Jewish-born Jesuit, defends the use of terror and the taking of life for the sake of an all-encompassing idea. Woods's work reads more naturally than the original translation, which, while faithful to the German, was stiff and forbidding. A necessary addition to any fiction collection.
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