The Magic Mountain
Author: Thomas Mann
Desc: In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps a community devoted exclusively to sickness as a microcosm for Europe which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony sexual tension and intellectual ferment a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.