The Magic Mountain
Mar 2027 · Liveright Publishing
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The fairy-tale masterpiece of modernist literature, in a landmark new translation. Thomas Mann’s supreme achievement The Magic Mountain is a novel of astonishing philosophical complexity and formal brilliance. Its guileless hero, a “simple young fellow” named Hans Castorp, travels to a snowbound Swiss sanatorium to visit his cousin Joachim, a tuberculosis patient. His planned three-week stay stretches into a far longer sojourn among an eclectic cast of characters who spend their days dining, reclining, and flirting as Europe marches steadily toward World War I. A pair of pedagogically minded interlocutors, Lodovico Settembrini and his adversary, Leo Naphta, expose the protagonist to the era’s leading political, religious, and philosophical debates, while a mysterious fellow patient of culturally ambiguous origins provides instruction in the meaning of love.
Employing the self-imposed constraint of using only English words that mean now what they meant in Mann’s own era, award-winning and best-selling translator Susan Bernofsky gives us not only a biting, mordantly funny philosophical satire but also a charming tale of a naive young man’s coming of age. This is the version of The Magic Mountain that can justifiably claim, in Bernofsky’s own words, to be “the fairy-tale one”—a translation both for our time and timeless.
Employing the self-imposed constraint of using only English words that mean now what they meant in Mann’s own era, award-winning and best-selling translator Susan Bernofsky gives us not only a biting, mordantly funny philosophical satire but also a charming tale of a naive young man’s coming of age. This is the version of The Magic Mountain that can justifiably claim, in Bernofsky’s own words, to be “the fairy-tale one”—a translation both for our time and timeless.
The fairy-tale masterpiece of modernist literature, in a landmark new translation. Thomas Mann’s supreme achievement The Magic Mountain is a novel of astonishing philosophical complexity and formal brilliance. Its guileless hero, a “simple young fellow” named Hans Castorp, travels to a snowbound ...
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Thomas Mann, a member of a Hanseatic family with deep roots in Lübeck, was arguably Germany’s most famous twentieth-century writer. In 1929, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Susan Bernofsky has translated works by Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse, among others, and is the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize. She is the director of the literary translation program at Columbia University and lives in New York.
Thomas Mann, a member of a Hanseatic family with deep roots in Lübeck, was arguably Germany’s most famous twentieth-century writer. In 1929, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Susan Bernofsky has translated works by Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse, among others, and is the recipient of m...
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