{"product_id":"the-magic-mountain-part-konrad-silberfalk-9798183995244","title":"The Magic Mountain - Part 2: A New Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHans Castorp is twenty-three years old, a well-bred engineer from Hamburg, when he travels to the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin at the Berghof sanatorium. He plans to stay for three weeks. He stays for seven years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sanatorium is high above the world of ordinary time, work, and consequence. Its patients - drawn from across Europe, representing every tradition and intellectual persuasion - live in the peculiar suspended present of the chronically ill, where days blur into weeks and years pass without the usual markers of progress or purpose. Into this world Hans Castorp stumbles, receptive and passive and constitutionally unsuited for what is about to happen to his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens is a full education in the contradictions of modern European civilization, conducted through the endless, brilliant, unresolvable arguments of two great antagonists: Settembrini, the Italian humanist who believes in reason, progress, and the democratic future; and Naphta, the Jesuit authoritarian who believes in hierarchy, death, and the necessity of violence. Between them, Castorp listens. So does the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in November 1924, \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is Thomas Mann's masterpiece and one of the essential novels of the twentieth century - a book about illness and time, about the state of European civilization on the eve of a catastrophe that has already happened by the time it is written, and about what it means to descend, finally, from a mountain and re-enter a world that has been waiting, all this time, to destroy itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Thomas Mann. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1929.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Konrad Silberfalk,Thomas Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798183995244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d","brand":"Konrad Silberfalk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874762174719,"sku":"9798183995244","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-magic-mountain-part-konrad-silberfalk-9798183995244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}