The Magic Mountain | Characters
Hans Castorp shares with several of the author's previous heroes an almost physiological listlessness in the pursuit of normal life. On a visit to a fashionable sanatorium, he succumbs to the attractions of its elegantly disguised sense of unreality and decides to stay. He finds himself surrounded by an international set of real and imaginary patients who allow Mann to satirize Europe's ailing high society in all its parasitic inactivity.
In the sanitorium, two patients vehemently vie for influence over Castorp's unformed but impressionable mind. The Italian journalist Ludovko...
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