Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]

Hannelore G. Mundt (University of Wyoming)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1924

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel
- Bildungsroman

Resources

In 1929 Thomas Mann received the Nobel Prize for literature. In the laudatio his second great novel, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain, 1924], was not mentioned – to the author’s dismay and fear that future generations would only remember him for his first novel, Buddenbrooks (1901). His apprehensions were unfounded. For decades, The Magic Mountain has ranked among the greatest novels of the 20th century and has consistently been included in “Great Books” courses due to its intellectual stature, its allegorical depiction of European history in the years before World War I, and Mann’s interweaving of universal themes – the seductions of love and death, man’s frailty and inhumanity, and the …

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Citation: Mundt, Hannelore G.. "Der Zauberberg". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 September 2003 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11470, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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