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"A novel of ideas at once serious and comic, The Magic Mountain offers a bird's-eye view of the political, philosophical, and social landscapes of pre-World War I Europe. This vintage program uses provocative dramatizations of key scenes from Thomas Mann's grotesque bildungsroman and employs the character of Mann himself, in a re-creation of a 1939 lecture, as a guide to the story's heights and depths. In addition, Mann's biographer, Nigel Hamilton, inquires into the story's manipulation of time and the effects of environment on identity."--Container.
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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
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Thomas Mann's The magic mountain
2004, Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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The magic mountain: a novel
1996, Vintage International
in English
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The magic mountain
1992, The Modern Library
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The magic mountain =: Der Zauberberg
1992, Vintage Books
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Der Zauberberg: Roman
1967, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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Edition Notes
Originally relased as a videocassette in 1987.
Rostrum camera, Ken Morse ; film editor, Tim Pearce ; series editor, Melvyn Bragg ; series consultant, Malcolm Bradbury.
Commentator: Nigel Hamilton, Mann's biographer.
John Shrapnel, Ben Daniels, John Grillo, Tim McInnerny, Iain Cuthbertson, Paul Brooke, Haydn Gwynne, Pippa Vickers.
DVD-R, Region 1.
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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."
Work Description
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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