He did, and his immersion in the book led him to read it himself. Eventually I asked a French-speaking friend of mine to tackle a translation. I searched all over in vain for an English translation of this section. For a non-French speaker, this was hugely frustrating. But the big roadblock here is that when one reaches the important climactic chapter at the book's center, "Walpurgis-Night," the energy-charged conversation between Hans Castorp and an important character of the book's first half is, in this translation, entirely in French. Hers is the version I started reading back in the 80s, maybe 1985. Lowe-Porter, who was Thomas Mann's "official" translator. Previously the book was available in only one english translation, by H.T. "It took me more than ten years to finally finish this book, and my completion of it was aided by this second english translation, by John E. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death. In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. Considerada como una de las grandes novelas de la literatura universal, es una orgullosa adicion para esta serie de audiolibros. El protagonista Hans Castorp, una persona promedio, sin ninguna aspiracion a ser heroe, representa al hombre del comun, aislado en un medio donde las cosas suceden pero sin que ninguno de los personajes pueda hacer nada para impedir o para avanzar los hechos. En esa historia, situada en un sanatorio de tuberculosos en los altos de una montana, el autor creo un increíble microcosmos, reflejo de lo que el consideraba la decadencia de su patria y de toda la civilizacion europea.
La Montana Magica fue la obra que logro para Thomas Mann, el insigne escritor aleman, el Premio Nobel. Una descripcion morbosa de la decadencia.
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