![]() ![]() Hans Castorp is the character around whom the entire long novel spins, yet it isn’t really much about Castorp himself. At the same time throughout the novel, Mann is at pains to tell us that Hans Castorp isn’t any sort of special person – just a normal relatively average fellow. We learn the most minute details of Hans Castorp’s life and experiences, and thus I think I came to understand him better than virtually any other character I have read of in literature before. ![]() In reading the novel this becomes quite clear. Thomas Mann tells us this will have to be a very long book, since he wants to tell the story of a person, and a person is built up very slowly by important details of his or her past. The Magic Mountain begins with a short but important introduction. New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Grove Press, Inc., 1969 Book review - THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN By Thomas Mann THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN By Thomas Manm ![]()
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