Memorable episodes include the recitation of Heinrich Heine's "Die Lorelei" by Joachim, the protagonist's invalid cousin, and the debates between the irrepressible humanist Settembrini and the rabid Jesuit priest Naphtha, as well as the protagonist's sight of a great golden paradise just beyond the horizon as he vanishes, dying, into the snow.
Its author described it as "a meditation on the aesthetic perfection of that which has been embalmed by time." Memorable episodes include the recitation of Heinrich Heine's "Die Lorelei" by Joachim, the protagonist's invalid cousin, and the debates between the irrepressible humanist Settembrini and the rabid Jesuit priest Naphtha, as well as the protagonist's sight of a great golden paradise just beyond the horizon as he vanishes, dying, into the snow. For ten points identify this novel about Hans Castorp's visit to a tuberculosis sanitarium, a 1923 novel by Thomas Mann.
Its author described it as "a meditation on the aesthetic perfection of that which has been embalmed by time."
Magic Mountain