The Magic Mountain is one of those works that changed the shape and possibilities of European
literature. It is a masterwork, unlike any other. It is also, if we learn to read it on its own
terms, a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new way of seeing.

With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern
novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an
exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps - a community devoted to sickness that serves
as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and
otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an "ordinary young man" who arrives for a short visit and
ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the
intoxication of ideas.

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