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news, so this is the day weekdays, on dw, the war fate, speed, the rise of popular politics a steadily pandemic society. totally divided and possibly on the brain. sounds like we're talking about today, right? actually, it's all in a novel published a 100 years ago. the magic mountain by thomas monterey says i'm the snellville address is issues that still considered us to have issues. we still discussed with great enthusiasm. oh, great hostility. don't mind this novel come better explained to us problems. we're currently experiencing things of warriors today. people are also taking a closer look at the books we're eleanor, which have always been can. okay, so i think it's a fascination read and a novel that has many interpretations. it has many layers in many things. it's also

a 1000 pages long. it's a literal literary, heavy weight. so what makes it worth the reading or even a 2nd reading the. ringback the magic mountains, 100 year anniversary is being marked with an exhibition into months, months hometown, and flew back with stage production. even a sequel, not written by someone's my himself, obviously. but 1st, what's it about? okay, what's that the same? it's the swiss alps at a sanatorium that's a kind of health resort or clinic where people think the fresh air will cure them of a long disease. and there was plenty of long disease at the time, 2 months, months such as novel and $19.00 oh $7.00. when temperature low says, is still a leading cause of death in here. and the best treatment people can get if they can

afford it, is breathing good air and just waiting around to get better. and they can wait a long time, answer if the story is young here, some us months, main character who goes to visit his sick cousins. how does the people we meet this character, hans cast or 9 who travels into this world and ends up staying for 7 years and is confronted with all the ideological political and philosophical debates of the time? that's i. what's funny about the book is, even though his car stop is actually healthy, he really gets into the santa torrie, the people, their philosophical debates, and just the culture of being a patient there. a strict health for teens luxurious meals obsessive temperature and taking the ends up and living like one of them, the ones on the end thoughts. and then in an isolated hermetically sealed place, the questions of humanity are played out on all possible levels. even the con, the building was progress, science love plays a major role. deaf is very present in so all the big topics and so much fun creates

to character patients of the clinic who really are polar opposites and their philosophies, sets and brittany on the one hand, p stands for progress and individual freedom for enlightenment vendors, nafta. she wants to see society dominated by and so tell a terry and rosie to talk with her and resumes were starting to take power in europe at that time with the rise of communism as fast as concerns cast off is caught between these 2 that the whole novel revolt around the decision which site to take, but at least both these characters become the highest concepts, mentors and he's really torn between the 2 philosophy. eventually, exclusive debates turned violence to rival space, often a deal. and that's just the beginning of the violence. the book ends in 1914 with the start of world, 1100 costs are disappearing. and so the chaos of battle. when the magic mountain came out, it quickly became an international best seller, translated into many different languages. and over the decades influential people

have claimed it as their favorite book, like american critics, susan sontag, who said she'd read it 7 or 8 times in spain. big fan clubs cropped up at schools and universities listening. you don't have to have 3 talk trips in nature to understand homeless mine because there's a lot of iron in human in his work. no more. it's about very serious things. but the book itself is an enjoyable experience. and there was some really hilarious things from you. and so in the event that you sent us and got c, a c, c must one group of people who didn't think the magic mountain was funny. it was the tourism board and thought, oh switzerland. they thought the book may have the town looked back. they actually asked another big german writer of the time goes tests not to write a novel, but pains of the town in a better way. thomas mun live quite a while born in 1875 at the beginning of the german empire. his diaries reveal that

he was bisexual at a time when that was not accepted of the 1929 he won the nobel prize for his novelty. it involves later, the fled nazi germany with his wife, katya, a jewish convert to christianity, and there are 6 kids. so let's take a step back. in 1912 katia of mine had been diagnosed with tuberculosis and told my son went to visit her at a sanitarium and of a switzerland. that became has an inspiration defense to fill it with mon, it's all coincidence. and so we imagined he must have sat there for years, thinking about how to do it. but it's all co incidence tests. so 5 keywords and only wanted to write the magic mountain as a short story on. and it turned into a 1000 page novel inside. and it took him 12 years to write it. he was interrupted by world war one, but also he was going through a shift in his own minds. when he started writing the book, he was very pro war. at 151914 to him,

us mama allowed himself to be carried away by the and suzy as him for war that was driving. many intellectuals officers, writers and artists of the time probably missed him. so he was in the front line of advocating for it. and in 1918 when germany was defeated, it was a lost cause and he went to a very isolated last month, almost 9 switch sides. and in the 1920s he became one of the most eloquent defenders of the republic and by the 19 civilities during his exile in the united states, a true believer in democracy. they will come. when the nazis came to power in 1933, thomas my left germany with his family and moved to switzerland pen to the united states. and later back to switzer from us mon advocated for tolerance and human dignity until he died and 1955, which almost month broke the magic mountain. she was thinking about his own process of political transformation. he puts a lot of the old hat, the pro war, him, that he distance himself from,

into the character of nafta. let's be sent to muslims. watson price is me most about thomas man is honest and sincere willingness. i'm courage to change his mind to put his views, the task again and again, and to arrive and you've use one to stand up for those new views until until you revises them. again. i think of the some of the of them, the magic mountain reflects exactly that in the up when the magic mountain came out in 1924 european society was really on edge. there's a feeling like today actually the restlessness of heightens tensions, existential dread, and the feeling that society could go off the rails. that's what i can do. what was in the air, he writes in the novel, you can sense of tremendous on ease of fear of the future. then suddenly there's the situation at the end of the novel, where things are unraveling, uncertain as to where they start shooting each other,

where they're cursing at the steps where the craziest ideas of merch off and people are literally losing their minds. boston as well, just so much fun writes about total polarization, division, people who stopped listening cuz now we're at that exact keeping points today and this time is great. irritability all you have to do is turn on any evening talk show and you'll see that people are interrupting each other. not listening, just on yelling as opinion and sign when it goes to holland minus the politics falling into populace. and what we now call hate speak to this information. this is the tensions and the dangers that are later going to lead to the fall of the weimar republic. germany's 1st attempt to real problem entry, democracy ended with the nazi here coming in, if you can follow it in vivid detail. he describes it with a tremendous aesthetic sense and tremendous psychological insight. this is demetrius atmosphere, where at the end, you just wonder who will shoot 1st,

1st in the jewel, and then at the very end, the war in which the whole thing culminates, the pursuits 1st. even today we see people turning to violence and they can't get their way with words. they don't get them. i think it's sadly current and we should keep that in mind and not in a good way. it's been a century a 100 years and was still at the same place. people will stuff and then use me. yes them or establish what at the end of the magic mountain. too much money asks, out of this universal feast of depths out of this extremity of fever, tingling the rain washed evening sky to a fiery glow. may it be that love one day shall mount humanity should be ashamed that we still have an answer. the books, great final question after this universal feast of death may be that loved one day shall mount this question about the horrible 20th century 21st century is starting the exact same way with the next universal feast of death and ukraine in the mid

least of mine was also ahead of his time when it came to sexuality earlier, novel as 20 a career guy and death in venice at strong homo, erotic under the magic mountain contains motifs that are obviously clear beneficial . i think it's one of the books greatest strengths that it breaks every cliche, especially when it comes to questions of how to talk about the body sexuality under ross. this isn't the whole thing. comes custom falls in love with a woman, but i'm so shy. but she reminds him of a male classmates that he wants. fans defies the. the question of what the amount is, what a woman is, what's masculine, what's feminine, and what is perceived as attractive, erotically attractive? all of that is fluid here. and gender fluidity was not mainstream. thomas monster and homosexuality was totally tab boot for most of society. just it was a criminal offense. in the 19 twenty's thomas mind campaigned against paragraph 175,

which criminalize homosexual relationships, and so as month own desire for man was something she lived out in secret to the outside world. she was an upstanding, heterosexual citizen, with a wife and 6 kids. love, hates politics and passion. they're all here in the magic. mount someone's mind leaves it up to you though, how you want to interpret that and i'm just can sometimes we have to find out own way just like the characters in the story. you can. i think that in times of the fake news and everything happening quickly, this idea of having to read with critical lies and do that for ourselves and stay awake. that is the most current seeing the numbers and that's what i liked the best . ok, so i sort of myself, do i a social okay. much middle style and in case the idea of reading a 1000 pages seems overwhelming my document, you can always skip a hand. these lots of readers have told me which parts they skipped, but it does happen then. oh, so let's get to it. what fascinates you most about the magic? now? let us know when the comments

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