Magic mountain

The Magic Mountain is a tuberculous sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. Its inhabitants have been forced to be here for years, communicating with the outside world with only rare letters and telegrams. Here, time flows unnoticed, life and death lose meaning, and the smallest nuances of human relations, on the contrary, acquire painful acuteness and significance. Love, fun, friendship, enmity, jealousy for the inhabitants of the sanatorium are seemed to be marked by the shadow of non -being...

This story has many possible readings - a powerful philosophical study of life foundations, a subtle psychological analysis of different types of human character, relationships, immersion in history culture, religion and in history in general - Mann depicted society on the eve of the First World War.