File:1924_Der_Zauberberg_(3).jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
The Magic Mountain
Sign in to save1924 novel by Thomas Mann
Key facts
- Author
- Thomas Mann
- Original title
- Der Zauberberg
- Translator
- Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter
- Language
- German, with some French
- Genre
- Bildungsroman , modernist novel
- Publisher
- S. Fischer Verlag , Alfred A. Knopf
- Publication place
- Weimar Republic
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Thomas Mann
- Genre
- philosophical novel
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Main subject
- tuberculosis
- Narrative location
- Germany
- Image
- 1924 Der Zauberberg (3).jpg
Show 9 more facts
- Commons category
- Der Zauberberg
- publication date
- 1924-00-00
- title
- Ma ui san
- inception
- 1924-00-00
- language of work or name
- German
- derivative work
- The Magic Mountain
- copyright status
- public domain
- first line
- An unassuming young man was travelling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks’ visit.
- form of creative work
- novel
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
~32 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg, pronounced [deːɐ̯ ˈtsaʊbɐˌbɛʁk] ) is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, published in November 1924 about a young and aspiring engineer Hans Castorp. While staying in the secluded world of a high-altitude sanatorium in the years leading up to 1914, Hans encounters otherworldly figures who confront him with politics, philosophy, but also romance, illness, and death. Enchanted by his love for a woman he meets in the sanatorium, which prompts him to reflect on an early and formative schoolboy romance, he stays considerably longer than originally planned.
The novel was inspired by the conditions at a sanatorium in Davos, which the author had visited in 1912 while caring for his wife, who was suffering from tuberculosis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Magic Mountain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.