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 The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
Newest Review: ... 'Tonio Kroger', Mann describes one schoolboy's love for another- shy awkward Tonio's platonic love for ... more  ... handsome Hans Hansen. Tonio eventually realises that love causes "sadness and humiliation" and that he must transform his energies into literature. Mann saw himself as Tonio. In Magic Mountain, Hans discovers he has TB and ends up staying in the sanatarium for seven years. He finds this does not displease him as he can be near to Claudia and he can continue studying his fellow patients and their different ideas about life and its meaning. Each of the patients represents a type of thinking found in pre...more |
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The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann: SEX AND IDEAS (627 words)
by nona - written on 09/01/02 (Very useful, 177 readings)
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Thomas Mann, author of Magic Mountain, was married, produced many children, and was considered to be ultra-respectable. His novels were best sellers, won him a Nobel Prize, and made him extremely rich and famous. When Mann came to live in America in the 1930's, Time and Life magazines welcomed Mann as "the greatest living author." If you enjoy the likes of Proust, Gide, or Joyce, Mann's Magic Mountain may be the sort of 'serious literature' to please you. In the Magic Mountain, Hans, a perpetual adolescent, visiting his handsome cousin Joachim in a TB sanatarium in the Swiss Alps, becomes attracted to Claudia. Claudia reminds ...
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