A collection of critical essays on Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain" arranged in chronological order of publication.
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.
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 ...
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...
This book is a comprehensive commentary on Thomas Mann’s seminal novel, one of the key literary artefacts of the 20th century.
The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature.
This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more.
In his study of "The Magic Mountain" Weigand comments on the novel's genre and organization before dissecting the themes of disease and mysticism, Mann's use of irony, and other aspects of this masterpiece of German literature.
50. Franz Kafka, “The Aeroplanes at Brescia,” in Franz Kafka: A Biography, by Max Brod, trans. G. Humphreys Roberts (London: Secker and Warburg, 1948), 171—9. This enthusiastic description of aviation forms an interesting contrast to ...
... to which she traces back the assumption that literature should be about depth and interiority , that expression of ... Es ist sogar hochgradig abstoßend , das brauche ich Ihnen nicht zu verhehlen , da Sie mir Unverschämtheit ...
Volume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous novel.