“The Magic Mountain,” the novel created by the classic of German literature Thomas Mann—the author of the famous novels Buddenbrooks, Doctor Faustus, Joseph and His Brothers—is a work without which world literature would undoubtedly be poorer. The book’s success was enormous: already within four years after its publication in 1924, it went through one hundred editions in five European languages. Clearly, the Nobel Prize received in 1929 is due in large part not only to Mann’s first novel Buddenbrooks, but also to The Magic Mountain. Mann often called this book a novel about time. And yet its central idea is the idea of Man and humanity—its core that becomes the focal point of intense discussions and difficult reflections of the work’s characters and the author himself.