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MANN, Thomas (1875-1955). Der Zauberberg. Berlin: G. Fischer, 1924.
An extremely fine set in the rare dustjackets of the first edition of Thomas Mann’s masterpiece. It tells the story of Hans Castorp, whose three-week visit to his tubercular cousin in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps turns into a seven-year stay, due to his failing health. Mann began writing The Magic Mountain in 1912 as a much shorter narrative in a humorous vein. When his work was interrupted by the First World War, 'the intervening events led Mann to a major examination of human nature, European history and politics and to ponder the great questions surrounding life and death. His description of institutional life is of interest in itself; allusions to the dark and irrational forces that lurk within the human psyche at a time when psychoanalysis was just beginning are of interest; considerations of the human condition and of the human spirit make worthwhile reading for any thoughtful person, and for anyone entering a profession centered on illness. In the informative afterword written retrospectively, Mann states that "what [Hans] came to understand is that one must go through the deep experience of sickness and death to arrive at a higher sanity and health..."' (Felice Aull). Ultimately, the work took 12 years to complete.
Two volumes, octavo (184 x 118mm). Publisher's cream quarter buckram over blue boards, spines decorated and lettered in brown and black, together with the rare and very fragile brown dustjackets with printed spines (dustjackets fractionally chipped at heads of spines with tiny losses, vol. I slightly more heavily affected with tiny wear to upper joint), contained in a modern quarter black morocco clamshell case, spine decorated with red labels and a gilt mountain.
An extremely fine set in the rare dustjackets of the first edition of Thomas Mann’s masterpiece. It tells the story of Hans Castorp, whose three-week visit to his tubercular cousin in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps turns into a seven-year stay, due to his failing health. Mann began writing The Magic Mountain in 1912 as a much shorter narrative in a humorous vein. When his work was interrupted by the First World War, 'the intervening events led Mann to a major examination of human nature, European history and politics and to ponder the great questions surrounding life and death. His description of institutional life is of interest in itself; allusions to the dark and irrational forces that lurk within the human psyche at a time when psychoanalysis was just beginning are of interest; considerations of the human condition and of the human spirit make worthwhile reading for any thoughtful person, and for anyone entering a profession centered on illness. In the informative afterword written retrospectively, Mann states that "what [Hans] came to understand is that one must go through the deep experience of sickness and death to arrive at a higher sanity and health..."' (Felice Aull). Ultimately, the work took 12 years to complete.
Two volumes, octavo (184 x 118mm). Publisher's cream quarter buckram over blue boards, spines decorated and lettered in brown and black, together with the rare and very fragile brown dustjackets with printed spines (dustjackets fractionally chipped at heads of spines with tiny losses, vol. I slightly more heavily affected with tiny wear to upper joint), contained in a modern quarter black morocco clamshell case, spine decorated with red labels and a gilt mountain.
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