It is centred around the hermetic mountain world of a tuberculosis sanatorium in which the male neophyte, losing all sense of time, undergoes a transformation and initiation, until a clap of thunder breaks the spell and the events of the FirstWorld War erupt.He disappears on thebattlefields of Flanders. Hans Rudolf Vaget's volume helps us to unlock that secret of this extraordinary Bildungsroman. Thomas Mann liked to think that even hismost difficultfiction, such as Lotte in Weimar, shared something of the excitement of stories of adventure, of Indianergeschienten, as itcaptivates the reader. 3), which could so easily leave the reader of TheMagic Mountain stranded. Itdoes indeed 'inspire further critical forays into some of the unmapped territories of this great mountain of a book' (p. Of its ten contributions five are (revised) reprints from international journals and publications, dating with one significant exception from the last fourteen years the other five, including two by the editor,were specially written for this casebook, which is a truly outstanding example of lucid introduction and ground-breaking challenging scholarship.

There can be no doubt that thisparticular volume brilliantly succeeds in all respects in that ambition. Among the key task for each volume is the editor's substantial introduction that considers the key features of thework' and the contextualization of 'its cultural import and contemporary reputation' and a surveying of 'themajor approaches that have in formed thework's critical history'. Books in theCasebooks inCriticism series 'introduce readers to the essential criti cism on landmark works of literature and film' involumes inwhich a distinguished scholar who is an authority on the texthas collected themost elucidating and dis tinctive scholarly essays on thatwork and added key supporting materials'. MLR, 104.3, 2009 913 Thomas Manns 'The Magic Mountain: A Casebook. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

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