The Magic Mountain (set of Volumes 1 and 2) (selected Translations of Classics)
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Hans, a college student, came to the Alpine Lung Disease Sanatorium to visit his cousin Joachim. Unexpectedly, he also contracted the lung disease and had to stay for treatment. The people in the sanatorium came from all over the world, with different personalities and ideas. Hans was an ideal young man, but after interacting with these people, his thoughts became confused and his spirit became depressed. The Russian woman Clavgia made him even more fascinated. He forgot about his career and important responsibilities, and the mountain became a "magic mountain" from which he could not extricate himself. Seven years passed in the blink of an eye. His cousin died of illness, Clavgia left, and those close friends also went their separate ways. Life shattered his fantasies one by one, making him feel painful and lonely. The artillery fire of the World War woke him up. Looking back on the past, Hans felt that he had been sleeping on the "Magic Mountain" for seven years, so he resolutely embarked on a journey to the front line. The novel has a grand scene and many characters; it consists of two main lines: describing the love triangle between the protagonist Hans, the young woman Clavgia and the wealthy businessman Pierco Payne, revealing the contradiction between life and death, soul and body; centering on the battle between democrats and militarists, it reflects the spiritual outlook of German intellectuals before the First World War and the opposition between different ideological views.
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