La montaña mágica
by Thomas Mann
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One of the most influential and celebrated German works of the 20th century has been newly rendered in English by Woods, twice winner of the PEN Translation Prize. First published in 1929, Mann's novel tells the story of Hans Castorp, a modern everyman who spends seven years in an Alpine sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, finally leaving to become a soldier in World War I. Isolated from the concerns of the everyday world, he is exposed to the wide range of ideas that shaped a world on the verge of explosion. Considering what was to follow, the most poignant moment comes when Naphta, a Jewish-born Jesuit, defends the use of terror and the taking 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 stiff and forbidding. A necessary addition to any fiction collection.
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Fiction, Sanatoriums, German fiction, Translations into English, Philosophy, Civilization, Special Hospitals, Fictional Works, Tuberculosis, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, coming of age, Germany, fiction, Fiction, general, Literature, Ficción, Sanatorios, German language materials, Criticism and interpretationPeople
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The magic mountain: a novel
1996, Vintage International
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The magic mountain
1992, The Modern Library
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Der Zauberberg: Roman
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