![]() ![]() A decent rent left after the death of the parents, and a “good reason” in the form of an illness, open up for the main character a unique opportunity to be who he is – that is, no one: a person who lives on a strictly routine basis, eats tasty, falls in love, has fun and students. Raised by a cousin, Hans Castorp is portrayed by the author as a “simpleton,” more likely to do nothing than work. Unnoticed by a young man, a three-week vacation turns into a seven-year period of treatment of small “wet foci”. The original idea remained in “The Magic Mountain” in the image of the protagonist – twenty-two-year-old engineer Hans Castorp, who arrived at the Berggof sanatorium to visit his cousin, a patient with tuberculosis, Joachim Zimsen. The two-volume novel was released in 1924 by S. Work on the “The Magic Mountain” was started in 1912, interrupted by the First World War and again resumed in 1920. ![]() The main idea of the work was to make fun of human inability to real life and, as a result, the flight of the individual into illness. The novel “The Magic Mountain” grew out of a satirical novel that Thomas Mann decided to write after visiting one of Davos sanatoriums, where his wife Katya was being treated at that time. ![]()
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