when you're up to date and we'll add it there, after short break hearts and veil and why you need to read thomas months novel, the magic mountains, you can catch all i would use at on duty on youtube. and of course on social websites. actively news. i'm like, look and see like the the

because it's just me of the war shapes the rise of popular politics as steadily pandemic society totally divided and possibly on the point. 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 marshall's i'm the snellville address is issues that still considered us to have issues. we still discussed with great enthusiasm. oh, grateful, steel, lity. 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 out, which have always been you can. okay, so i think it's a fascination read and the novels it 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 in 2 months, months hometown and flew back with stage production. even a sequel, not written by someone's mind himself, obviously. but 1st, what's it about? okay, what's that the same? it's the swiss alps at a senatorial, 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 in $19.00 oh, $7.00, went to merchant, los 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 goes to visit his sick. cousin comes to see what 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 has kind of stop as actually healthy, she 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 he ends up 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 conch building was progress, science love plays a major role. deaf is very present. and so all the big topics and so much mine

creates 2 character patients at the clinic who really are polar opposites and their philosophies says, and brittany, on the one hand, p stands for progress and individual freedom for in the light. then there's nafta. she wants to see society dominated by it, so tell a terry and rosie to talk with her and resumes. we're starting to take power in europe at that time with the rise of communism. the fastest has 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 catholics. 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 war one has cost or 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 schools and universities are most necessity there and have to have 3 talk trips in nature to understand to them this month 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 in the so in the i meant that you send us and i see a c, c must one group of people who didn't think the magic mountain was funny. it was the tourism board and thought both switzerland, they thought the book may have the town looked bad. they actually asked another big german writer of the time college tests not to write a novel but paints of the town in a better way. homeless mind 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. in 1929, he won the nobel prize for his novel vote inbox. 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 him as mine went to visit her at a sanitarium and of a switzerland that became hasn't expiration since we finish with mom, 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 coincidence. so 5, originally wanted to write the magic mountain as a short story on. and it turned into a 1000 page novel insight. 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 and said something in 1914 thomas mont 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, i 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 switched 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 mon, left germany with his family move to switzerland, pen to the united states. and later, back to switch to most mind advocated for tolerance, human dignity, and somebody died and 1955, which almost month wrote the magic mountain. and she was thinking about his own process of political transformation. he puts a lot of the old him, the pro war him, that he distance himself from,

into the character of nafta. leslie's hand to muslim watson price is me, most of up to him us. mine is honest and sincere willingness. i'm courage to change his mind to put his views, the task again and again, and to arrive at new views or to stand up for those new views of tools until he revises them again. i think of this some of whom do i have. the magic mountain reflects exactly that in this up when the magic mountain came out in 1924 european society was really on edge versus feeling like today. actually the restlessness of heightened tensions, existential dread, and the feeling that society could go off the rails. and at least what was in the air, he writes in the novel, you can sense a tremendous on ease of fear of the future. and 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 and as walters. someone's mind writes about total polarization division. people who stopped listening cuz now we're at that exact keeping points today and this time of grades 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 yelling, ask opinion and sign when it goes to holland, muncie politics falling into populace. and what we now call hate speaks. and this information he sees the tensions and the dangers that are later going to lead to the fall of the weimar republic. germany's 1st attempt, real parliamentary 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. to me creates an atmosphere where the end, you just wonder who will shoot 1st. first and 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 work. they look at them, i think it's sadly current. we should keep that in mind a not in a good way. it's been a century a 100 years and was still at the same place, the whole stuff in 9 years. and yes, that was establishing 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, but we still haven't answered the books. great final question after this universal feast of death. may it 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 in ukraine. and the middle east of

mine was also ahead of his time when it came to sexuality earlier. nobel as 20 or career guy and death in venice at strong homo erotic under the magic mountain contains motifs that are obviously clear, beneficial. and as it gets one of the bits greatest strengths that it breaks every cliche, especially when it comes to questions of how to talk about the body sexuality under offices. i'm sick, so they keep, the whole thing comes custom falls in love with a woman, but i'm so shocked. but she reminds him of a male classmates that he wants. fans defies the the question of what the amount is which 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 acts towards month own desire for man was something she lived out and 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 leads it up to you though, how you want to interpret that. i'm just going sometimes we have to find out own way just like the characters in the story. it 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 that number and that's what i liked the best. ok, so i sort of myself do i, is was real k, monumental 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 i thought, and then i'll. so let's get to it. what fascinates you most about the magic now? let us know in the comments the,

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