The Magic Mountain

Magic Mountain - tuberculous sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. His inhabitants are forced to be here for years, communicating with the outside world with only rare letters and telegrams. Here the time flows imperceptibly, life and death lose the meaning, and the smallest nuances of human relations, on the contrary, acquire painful sharpness and significance. Love, fun, friendship, enmity, jealousy for the inhabitants of the sanatorium as if noted by shadow of nonsense ...
This story has many possible readings - the most powerful philosophical study of life foundations, a subtle psychological analysis of different types of human character, relationships, dive in the history of culture, religion And in the story in general - Mann depicted a society on the eve of the First World War