Der Zauberberg - Thomas Mann (1924)

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One of the most influential and celebrated German works of the 20th century has recently been translated into English by Woods, a two-time winner of the PEN Translation Prize. First published in 1929, Mann's novel tells the story of Hans Castorp, a modern, ordinary man who spends seven years in an Alpine sanatorium for tuberculosis patients and eventually leaves to become a soldier in the First World War. Isolated from the concerns of the everyday world, he is exposed to the wide range of ideas that shaped a world on the brink of explosion. Considering what came next, the most moving moment comes when Naphta, a Jesuit of Jewish origin, defends the use of terror and the elimination 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 rigid and imposing. A necessary addition to any fiction collection.
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Fiction, Sanatoriums, German Fiction, English Translations, Philosophy, Civilization, Special Hospitals, Works of Fiction, Tuberculosis, Continental European Fiction (Fictional Works by a Single Author), Fiction, Coming of Age, Germany, Fiction, General Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Sanatoriums, German Language Materials, Criticism and Interpretation, SpasPeople
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)Places
Germany, Davos, SwitzerlandTimes
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Translation by: Zauberberg.
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"AN ORDINARY YOUNG MAN was on his way from his hometown, Hamburg, to Davos-Platz, in the canton of Graubünden."