Thomas Mann\'s "The Magic Mountain" is a classic novel of ideas set in a Swiss sanatorium in the early twentieth century. It follows the story of Hans Castorp, a young engineer who visits the sanatorium for a three-week stay and ends up
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Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modern versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.