German novelist and essayist (1875–1955), awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.

Born in Lübeck (1875), died 1955. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1929.

A close, somewhat ironical reading of Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) that admires Mann's orchestral prose while criticizing its digressions and slowness. The review highlights themes of time, illness, love and intellectual debate centered on Hans Castorp. Rating given: 3/5.

For:Readers of classic German literature and long, philosophical novels; those interested in close readings of narrative tempo and ideas.

 Reading the prose of The Magic Mountain often brings to mind, or at least brings to my mind, the image of a slimy worm moving, slithering slowly, with the characteristic sluggishness of slimy creatures, worms, which one does not quite understand what they want to do, or even if they know what they are doing, or where they are going: slowly forward, then a slight curve to the left, slowly forward, another slight curve to the left, backwards?!?

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