![]() Hans Castorp takes a break from his engineering studies in Hamburg to visit his cousin, an officer in training named Joachim Ziemssen, who has tuberculosis. This study guide refers to the 1995 translation from the German by John E. The novel was Mann’s first to reach wide international acclaim and helped secure him a Nobel prize. Rapid technological changes were shrinking the world advancements in medicine and the relentless exploitation and colonization of a global working class created to substantial changes to the health and prosperity of the European and American bourgeoisie.Ī Modernist bildungsroman, or coming of age novel, The Magic Mountain takes place throughout the decade leading up to World War I and explores these global technological and ideological shifts through its main protagonist, Hans Castorp. ![]() The telegraph and railway were giving way to the motorcar and radio. ![]() World War I was the culmination of many upheavals to the global order that took place within Mann’s lifetime. ![]() ![]() He relocated to the United States and became a U.S. During World War II, he was exiled from Germany, where Nazis burned copies of The Magic Mountain. Mann was born in 1875, just four years after the creation of the modern state of Germany and the failed revolutionary Commune of France. ![]()
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