The Magic Mountain. Part 2

9 hrs. 3 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Thomas Mann

Narrator Dmitry Shabrov

Description

“The Magic Mountain” is a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. Its residents are forced to remain here for years, communicating with the outside world only through rare letters and telegrams. Here, time passes unnoticed; life and death lose meaning; and, by contrast, the smallest nuances of human relationships take on painful sharpness and significance. For the sanatorium’s inhabitants, love, friendship, enmity, and jealousy seem marked by the shadow of nonbeing… This story has many possible readings—a powerful philosophical investigation of life’s foundations, a subtle psychological analysis of different types of human character, relationships, immersion in the history of culture and religion, and history in general—Mann depicts society on the eve of World War I.