The Magic Mountain is a sweeping critique of totalitarian Europe. 100 years later, its warnings feel urgent
- Written by Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
The site of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, in Davos, Switzerland.Ma Li/Flickr, CC BY-NCThis month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century’s towering literary achievements, it is a sweeping critique of the dangerous totalitarian political forces that shaped – and very nearly...
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