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Thomas Mann · 1924
A philosophical novel following Hans Castorp, a young man who arrives at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps and becomes entangled in the intellectual and spiritual currents of pre-World War I Europe. Mann's modernist masterpiece explores time, illness, and the human condition through richly layered narrative and symbolic imagery.
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Prolonged exile from ordinary time turns illness, desire, and argument into the crucible where a young man's soul is formed—or dissolved.
education-and-formation
The daily routine had begun to take on a character of sanctity. When he considered life down in the flat-land, it seemed somehow queer and unnatural.
MMT-RC-150His illness and a stay of still undetermined length had come between him and his work; that might mean a turning-point in his career.
MMT-RC-300mortality
Death is worthy of homage, as the cradle of life, as the womb of palingenesis. Severed from life, it becomes a spectre, a distortion, and worse.
MMT-RC-205For days he had lived only by enormous quantities of oxygen; his wife, in whose arms he had died, was left wholly penniless.
MMT-RC-298desire
When desire is fixed upon a human being with a human face, we begin talking about love—love of the face is love of the soul.
MMT-RC-633I cannot attend to what you say about morality for being so happy that we are sitting here as we once did, and then never again.
MMT-RC-611Illuminates
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