Two characters in this novel are nicknamed "Castor and Pollux" by a (*) doctor who gives the protagonist an x-ray of a Russian woman's skeleton.
Valentine's aria from Gounod's Faust plays during a séance in this work, and its author included a Jewish convert to Catholicism as a parody of Hegelian Marxist György Lukács. The title of this work comes from The Birth of Tragedy's discussion of Midas's hunt for Silenus and an "Olympic" structure which "shows its roots." Two characters in this novel are nicknamed "Castor and Pollux" by a (*) doctor who gives the protagonist an x-ray of a Russian woman's skeleton. The protagonist of this work experiences a hallucination of two witches slaughtering a child while hiking during a blizzard after Naphtha's suicide, which spurs him to re-enter the outside world despite the possibly psychosomatic tuberculosis he developed while visiting his cousin Joachim. For 10 points, name this novel about Hans Castorp's stay in a Swiss sanatorium, by Thomas Mann.
Valentine's aria from Gounod's Faust plays during a séance in this work, and its author included a Jewish convert to Catholicism as a parody of Hegelian Marxist György Lukács.
The Magic Mountain [or Der Zauberberg]