ohmagoddard 's review for:

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

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On the whole this didn’t do it for me, though I did enjoy certain scenes/moments: Behrens’ painting; Naphta’s backstory; the séance… and the final three pages have a vitality to them that is totally blindsiding. I guess that is the point. But truly this was a struggle for me to get through. And I get it, form is content and all, but come on. Interested to see how or if this matures in my memory.