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Magic Mountain (upper and Lower)
General Fiction魔山（上下）
(germany) Thomas Mann Translated By Wu Xueying
"The Magic Mountain" is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann. The novel is centered on a sanatorium and describes many feudal nobles and bourgeois figures in Europe, including Prussian officers, Russian ladies, Dutch colonists, Catholics... They are all parasites of society. The entire sanatorium is filled with a morbid and dying atmosphere, symbolizing the decline of capitalist civilization. The work reveals the kinship between decadence and fascism through the ideological conflicts between the characters.
"The Magic Mountain" is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann. The novel is centered on a sanatorium and describes many feudal nobles and bourgeois figures in Europe, including Prussian officers, Russian ladies, Dutch colonists, Catholics... They are all parasites of society. The entire sanatorium is filled with a morbid and dying atmosphere, symbolizing the decline of capitalist civilization. The work reveals the kinship between decadence and fascism through the ideological conflicts between the characters.