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The plot of Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain unfolds at the beginning of the last century. Young Hans Castorp visits his cousin in the Davos sanatorium and falls under the spell of the microcosm of those who "live above." Amidst the unique atmosphere of decadence and impending death, Hans Castorp meets vivid characters: the advocate of progress and enlightenment Settembrini, the mystical Nafta, the exotic Peppercorn and the magnetic Mrs. Shosha, the embodiment of love. Hans Castorp's three-week stay drags on for many years, and the enchanted field of the Mountain is only broken by an unexpected thunderclap, a harbinger of war.
The Magic Mountain is a key philosophical novel not only in German, but in all of European literature of the 20th century.