The Magic Mountain

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/01/1996
ISBN: 9780679772873
Pages: 720
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.26w x 1.25d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/07/1996
Newsweek 10/08/2007 pg. 14