Thomas Manns Der Zauberberg

"Fever dream and altitude sickness"—this is what the most famous sanatorium stay in literary history tells us: Thomas Mann's * The Magic Mountain* . For 100 years now, Hans Castorp has traveled to Davos to visit his cousin, who suffers from tuberculosis, and ultimately to stay there himself for seven years. This volume takes the anniversary as an opportunity to reread and reinterpret the world bestseller. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines and areas of expertise examine the text for its specific content. The questions range from the historical context and questions of medical history to cultural-historical themes such as the occult and the sepulchral. Together, the contributions in this volume demonstrate how relevant *The Magic Mountain* remains today: what motivates the characters in the text, what preoccupied the author, these things still resonate with us. An engaging and entertaining read.