Castorp is in his early 20s, about to take up a shipbuilding career in Hamburg, his home town.
Following the early death of his parents, Castorp has been brought up by his grandfather and later, by a maternal uncle named James Tienappel. It introduces the protagonist, Hans Castorp, the only child of a Hamburg merchant family. Fischer Verlag in Berlin.The narrative opens in the decade before World War I. Der Zauberberg was eventually published in two volumes by S. Given this, Mann felt compelled to radically revise and expand the pre-war text before completing it in 1924. He was also drawn to speculate about more general questions related to personal attitudes to life, health, illness, sexuality and mortality. He explored the sources of the destructiveness displayed by much of civilised humanity. The savage conflict and its aftermath led the author to undertake a major re-examination of European bourgeois society. According to Mann, in the afterword that was later included in the English translation of his novel, this stay inspired his opening chapter (" Arrival").The outbreak of World War I interrupted his work on the book. In May and June 1912, Mann visited her and became acquainted with the team of doctors and patients in this cosmopolitan institution. Friedrich Jessen's Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland for several months. The newer work reflected his experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, who was suffering from a lung complaint, resided at Dr. It began as a much shorter narrative which revisited in a comic manner aspects of Death in Venice, a novella that he was preparing for publication. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature.Mann started writing what was to become The Magic Mountain in 1912. APO/FPO, Afghanistan, Alaska/Hawaii, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, US Protectorates, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Virgin Islands (U.S.The Magic Mountain ( German: Der Zauberberg) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924.
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