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The young Hans Castorp travels from Hamburg to Davos to visit his sick cousin in the tuberculosis sanatorium. He plans to stay for three weeks, but it turns into seven years.

“Castorp's story is the story of a simple hero. He is made capable of moral, spiritual, and sensual adventures in the feverish hermeticism of the Magic Mountain, of which he never could have dreamed before.” – Thomas Mann

Mann's characters on the Magic Mountain pause from real life. We experience people who voluntarily and sometimes joyfully submit to the routine of sanatorium life.
And then, with a thunderclap, World War I stands at the door – and that very society wonders how it could come to this. And while they are still wondering, the war catapults them from the beautiful Magic Mountain into reality.
Thus, the war engulfs not only the protagonist Hans Castorp but also his (our?) entire era!

A divided society, existential fears, the specter of war... One hundred years after its first publication, the Magic Mountain is startlingly relevant. Thomas Mann addresses the serious themes of his novel with humor, his characteristic irony, and his unparalleled linguistic brilliance.

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