Thomas Mann, Magic Mountain, 1958 Printing, Novel
"The Magic Mountain" ["Der Zauberberg"], by Thomas Mann, translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter, published by Knopf, New York. Stated 10th printing of the reset edition, September 1958.
"The Magic Mountain" (German: "Der Zauberberg"), a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924, is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature.
In this dazzlingly 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. "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.
Mann's vast composition is erudite, subtle, ambitious, but, most of all, ambiguous; since its original publication it has been subject to a variety of critical assessments. For example, the book blends a scrupulous realism with deeper symbolic undertones. Given this complexity, each reader is obliged to interpret the significance of the pattern of events in the narrative, a task made more difficult by the author's irony. Mann was well aware of his book's elusiveness. He later compared it to a symphonic work orchestrated with a number of themes. In a playful commentary on the problems of interpretation, "The Making of The Magic Mountain," written 25 years after the novel's original publication- he recommended that those who wished to understand it should read it twice.
US: Priority (c.2-4 days) ---------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c.2-6 weeks) --- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ---- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, publisher's black cloth gold stamped spine and blind stamped front board; 5.3/4" x 8.1/2"; inscription on the front endpaper dated "June 20th, 1959"; 728 pages + the last of the works by Thomas Mann and one page "Printer’s Note"; [these last pages and back endpaper have corner folds]; very good condition.
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"The Magic Mountain" ["Der Zauberberg"], by Thomas Mann, translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter, published by Knopf, New York. Stated 10th printing of the reset edition, September 1958.
"The Magic Mountain" (German: "Der Zauberberg"), a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924, is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature.
In this dazzlingly 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. "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.
Mann's vast composition is erudite, subtle, ambitious, but, most of all, ambiguous; since its original publication it has been subject to a variety of critical assessments. For example, the book blends a scrupulous realism with deeper symbolic undertones. Given this complexity, each reader is obliged to interpret the significance of the pattern of events in the narrative, a task made more difficult by the author's irony. Mann was well aware of his book's elusiveness. He later compared it to a symphonic work orchestrated with a number of themes. In a playful commentary on the problems of interpretation, "The Making of The Magic Mountain," written 25 years after the novel's original publication- he recommended that those who wished to understand it should read it twice.
US: Priority (c.2-4 days) ---------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c.2-6 weeks) --- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ---- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, publisher's black cloth gold stamped spine and blind stamped front board; 5.3/4" x 8.1/2"; inscription on the front endpaper dated "June 20th, 1959"; 728 pages + the last of the works by Thomas Mann and one page "Printer’s Note"; [these last pages and back endpaper have corner folds]; very good condition.
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