This is the best video that I’ve seen on the novel. Very concise with excellent incites. Thank you

Read the Magic Mountain whilst sick in bed, "convalescing". A beautiful book---lived every line and page as if I was a resident.

@Fiction_Beast

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, it is a great novel. I hope you are well now.

Your videos are very good indeed 👌. Thank you for your diligence and effort.

Naphta is such an amazing and unsettling character. The novel dives into truly deep reflexions when he appears. It really impressed me.

Excellent concise and to the point ❤

I read The Magic Mountain last year and it was such a powerful book it remains with me still.

I'm on my second reading of Magic Mountain -- read it 10 years ago, so thanks for this very helpful video.

@Fiction_Beast

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you for watching!

Thank you for covering it with such subtleness.

@Fiction_Beast

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

One of my top 10 favorite books of all time! Great video!

Well done, dude. Great work!Greetings from Brazil.

@Fiction_Beast

3 жыл бұрын

Well, thank you! Probably the first brazilian to comment on my videos? Appreciate it mate!

It was a book that had been on my reading list for ages. It was a rugged mountain with many peaks. All in all an exhausting experience. There are many things I don't understand. I'm going to read it in small chunks from time to time. Thank you for this excellent guide.

My father’s favorite book. He was a doctor and also born in 1924. He worked with TB patients and never got it. His father died of TB. My father was drafted in WWII and fought in Korea. As his birthday approaches this September I plan to read this book. Thank you for the preview and analysis. I traveled extensively and particularly in Germany in 1982. I appreciated your video.

Just finished the book, fantastic novel and good video as usual❤

What you are doing is a great job My friend. Another fan of your channel. Keep going..frm India

Nice to see YT discovering Thomas Mann. I can't seem to get past him. Just finished Joseph and his brothers, and I don't know where to go from there. Maybe I should read Magic Mountain again. Harsh rule nr five, by the way. Life is a journey of loss... Great work. More Mann :D

@Fiction_Beast

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I should read more German literature. This was my second German novel I believe after the man without qualities by musil.

Definitely one of my favourite novels of all time.

素晴らしすぎる。ありがとうございます。

Hi Matt, As always, thanks for sharing your journey. I have a cloth bound first English edition of "The Magic Mountain" in my library but haven't yet read it. Regardless, I really like your summaries and inquisitive, light hearted analysis.

@Fiction_Beast

3 жыл бұрын

That’s wonderful to hear. It’s fun making these videos but again if someone finds them interesting that’s a bonus. I really appreciate your feedback.

I'm halfway through this book and really enjoying it. I was worried it would be a dry read, but I feel as pulled into the book as Hans is pulled into the way of life at the sanotorium

Have read it 3 times!! One of my favorites

I truly appreciated your analysis, but I 'd dare to suggest to analyse and explore deeper and further the role and the character of Mynheer Peeperkorn and most of all the one of Clawdia Chauchat.The chapter " Night of Valpurga" , which is centred on Hans' love speech to Clawdia - besides surprisingly spoken in French -as for me is one of the novel's bleeding hearts .The other heart is the chapter "Snow", may be the climax of the novel itself. I' m looking forward to hearing and reading your views on those peaks of the magic mountain! Thank you in advance

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much.

@hermesnoelthefourthway

Жыл бұрын

I agree , totally. Mynheer Peeperkorn and Clauvdia Chaucet are central characters in the Romance. Far more essential than the others after Castorp. Most importantly , they represent the mystical and love element , which rises above all the other elements in the novel and is the primary cause of its greatness. The chapter Snow (which you mention) being a perfect example of this. That chapter actually goes far beyond literature , into a place of transfigured consciousness and altered states of being and perceptions of time. I enter a world of wonder , rapture , and bliss when I read that phenonenal chaper. Die Zauberberg is very probably the greatest work of literature that has ever been written. Of that , I have no doubt. With Rene Daumal's Mount Analogue being a distant second

@giulianademedici691

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for agreeing and for going so deep in your analysis, not only as a matter of reason , but much more as a matter of "heart ", I mean of the center of our emotional life.

@hermesnoelthefourthway

Жыл бұрын

@giulianademedici691 "The center of our emotional life." That's it. In a nutshell. The magic mountain actually changed my life. And enabled me to see thru the mirage of passing time to something permanent and much deeper. To something more real. For some peculiar reason , I seem to recall very vividly every scene in the novel. And it is now over ten years ago since I last read it. To a certain extent , I identify with Hans Castorp. His hermetic , observing , tranquil , contemplative lifestyle. All the best , now 🏔🏤

@tourbillon9617

5 ай бұрын

For me, Hans' friendship with Mynheer Peeperkorn, managed to break the spell Clawdia had on him. In fact, Hans' infatuation with Clawdia ( The whole novel actually) is meant to be a parody of Mann's earlier short novel, Death in Venice.

This novel and The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse are amongst my favorite books from Germany.

@Fiction_Beast

2 жыл бұрын

I have to read Hermann Hesse. A few people have mentioned him.

@richardfox2865

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast yes, read Hesse. You won't be disappointed.

@joezawinulreviewsandreacti2509

Жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast it's really good! I think you would like it

Yes I did listen to this masterpiece

I’m halfway through Proust, but I’ve heard rock stars refer to the Magic Mountain. After watching your beautiful video, it makes a lot of sense.

@Fiction_Beast

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@likmijnreet4542

Жыл бұрын

those rock stars probably knew someone who knew someone who's read the synopsis 😂😂

@realitywinner7582

8 ай бұрын

was just thinking that 'Therapy? ' have a song with the same title !

I know this video is old, but it is helpful as I’m doing a group read of the Magic Mountain in April\May 2022. I’ve never read the novel before.

@Fiction_Beast

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. It’s not an easy novel for a book club.

Yes! And loved it, I was young tiene, loves Settembrini

👍 Nice

Is that the university hospital in Aachen used in the background?

yes, read the 3 months back

Yes i am just finishing the novel

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I think you didn't get the novel right. Hans didn't got sick. It was more the paranoia that he might be sick and him believing he was sick that made him stay at the Hotel as sick. a little bit absurdist but that was the intention of Mann thats why kafka was inspired by it. Second the sanatorium doesn't represent life but the contrary: the horizontal life, the life of non action but limbo thinking about things instead of living, somekind of a nihilistic way of living and state of life, thats why Settembrini was urging Hans to leave the sanatorium to not believe what the doctors where saying. living is action not inaction that's another point of the novel. third the name Magic mountain comes from Faust, where the Magic Mountain was the mountain of the spirits where spirits reside.

@erjondividi5303

2 жыл бұрын

there are still many points you have missed. I suggest you reread the novel

@Fiction_Beast

2 жыл бұрын

Oops!

Just read this book. Totally have to reread cus I missed all the symbolism n was highly annoyed with the main character

no,i didn't if i can be frank,if i could read a hundreth of what you read, i would be a happy person

I was a little shocked with you basically claiming that Germans are too pragmatic to be artistic. Thomas Mann was just as much an artist as Marcel Proust.

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

The stereotype of German scientists, engineers and composers and the French visual artists and novelists.

socialism is not synonymous with authoritarianism

@SilviaViolin

2 ай бұрын

It is not, but humanity is too foolish to handle it.

Admittedly premature. But I can’t see the point behind his novel. Just seems like opinions of the author. It’s like he prefers chocolate over strawberry ice cream. Okay, that’s nice to know but why should a reader care. And because of that, it is a work of art? Not sure what I may be missing. Admittedly premature.

@Fiction_Beast

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not problem to voice your opinion, mature or not. I’m a little worried my video may have given you the wrong impression of this amazing novel. I try to be as impartial as possible but obviously it’s not easy. We all see things through a lens we have developed since childhood. I say, don’t be afraid to this read this novel and you might find things that will surprise you. This video is in no way the most exhaustive analysis of the novel. Would love to hear what you make of the novel yourself. Also never be afraid to voice your opinion in this channel.