The Magic Mountain
Hans Castorp, a young engineer, goes up to a Davos sanatorium to visit his cousin for three weeks and is found to have a spot on his lung. He stays seven years, taking his temperature twice a day, falling for a Russian patient, and listening to a humanist and a Jesuit argue over his head. Time, sickness and Europe's quarrel about life and death, held inside one Alpine hotel.
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- alludes to ↑ Faust, Part One
- influenced by ↑ Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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