Thomas Mann's supreme achievement, The Magic Mountain is a novel of astonishing philosophical complexity and formal brilliance. Sometimes forgotten is that it is also, at its heart, an emotionally resonant fairy-tale. Its guileless hero, a "simple young fellow" named Hans Castorp, travels to a snowbound Swiss sanatorium where an eclectic cast of characters spends their days dining, reclining, and debating ideas as Europe marches steadily toward World War?I.
Employing a remarkable self-imposed constraint of using only English words that mean now what they meant in Mann's era, award-winning and best-selling translator Susan Bernofsky gives us not only a biting, mordantly funny philosophical satire, but also a charming tale of one man's coming-of-age. This is the version of The Magic Mountain that can justifiably claim, in Bernofsky's own words, to be "the fairy-tale one"-a translation that is simultaneously for our time and timeless.
| ISBN: | 9780393292053 |
| Publication date: | 27th April 2027 |
| Author: | Thomas Mann |
| Publisher: | Liveright Publishing Corporation an imprint of Liveright |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 928 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Classic fiction: general and literary |
Thomas Mann's supreme achievement, The Magic Mountain is a novel of astonishing philosophical complexity and formal brilliance. Sometimes forgotten is that it is also, at its heart, an emotionally resonant fairy-tale.
The Magic Mountain features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary
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The Magic Mountain was written by Thomas Mann and published by Liveright Publishing Corporation an imprint of Liveright
The Magic Mountain has 928 pages
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