At the end this character is glimpsed on a World War I battlefield.  
At the end this character is glimpsed on a World War I battlefield.  In a famous passage, he soothes himself with romantic music that contains at its heart the death wish.  While lost in a snowstorm he has a vision of an earthly paradise and a blood sacrifice, but forgets it all as soon as he returns to the novel's title locale, where he subjects himself to the arguments of Naphta and Settembrini, the lure of Madame Chauchat, and the vitality of Mynheer Peeperkorn.  A resident of the International Sanatorium Berghof, FTP, identify this main character of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.
At the end this character is glimpsed on a World War I battlefield.  
Hans Castorp (accept either name)