01763cam a2200337 i 4500 532108694 TxAuBib 961119t19961995||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780679772873 0679772871 (OCoLC)35957120 VIA eng VIA CNO OCL OCLCQ BAKER XY4 BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG QJB BDX OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCA TxAuBib rda eng ger Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. The magic mountain : a novel / Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by John E. Woods. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, 1996. ©1995. xii, 706 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, 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. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death. Sanatoriums Fiction. Sanatoriums. Bildungsromans. Germany Fiction. Germany. Fiction. Woods, John E, (John Edwin.)