A review by outcolder
Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann

5.0

Everybody is dying, but some are dying faster than others. Way up the altitude in Davos, it’s a gang of bizarre bourgeoisie dying faster, through the eyes of the simple Hans Castorp, an orphan and no stranger to death. There is lots of intellectual riffing, about time, about progress, about humanism and about being human. There’s a lot of pre-antibiotics treatment of pulmonary infections, some of it quite gruesome. There’s an ill-fated love affair, there’s danger in the woods, there’s music, duels, seances, but most of all, there’s laughs. This mountain is funny.