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La Montaña Mágica / The Magic Mountain - by Thomas Mann (Paperback)

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  • El propio Thomas Mann advierte que esta novela trata sobre «la pasión como desequilibrio y degradación».
  • About the Author: Thomas Mann (1875#1955), genial ensayista y narrador alemán, nació en Lübeck (Alemania) en el seno de una familia de la alta burguesía.
  • 1056 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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"Gustav Aschenbach, "ash stream" in German, is a well-known mature writer. He comes to Venice in search of inspiration, but also to fill his days with aesthetic reflections in an idyllic setting. At the hotel he meets Tadzio, a young Polish man who is on vacation with his family. The boy becomes an object of desire and adoration; an ideal and impossible love based on aesthetic contemplation and that will lead Aschenbach to renounce everything, including himself. "There is, between the chinks of that story, an abyss that it reveals and that we immediately identify in ourselves."--Publisher's description.



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El propio Thomas Mann advierte que esta novela trata sobre «la pasión como desequilibrio y degradación».

Gustav Aschenbach, «arroyo de cenizas» en alemán, es un escritor maduro que goza de reconocimiento. Llega a Venecia en busca de inspiración, pero también de llenar sus días con reflexiones estéticas en un entorno idílico.

En el hotel coincide con Tadzio, un joven de polaco que se encuentra de vacaciones con su familia. El muchacho se convierte en objeto de deseo y adoración; un amor ideal e imposible basado en la contemplación estética y que llevará a Aschenbach a renunciar a todo, incluso a sí mismo. «Hay, entre los resquicios de esa historia, un abismo que ella deja entrever y que inmediatamente identificamos en nosotros mismos.»

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosophical and metaphysical dilemmas facing people in the modern age.

In the years leading up to the First World War, the fundamental elements of human nature were thrown into sharp relief by the political tensions that resulted in the ultimate metaphor for the innate destructiveness of humankind: the War itself. If such a war is the true expression of human tendencies, what hope is there for the future? Through the figure of the main character of the novel, Thomas Mann explores the alternative philosophies of life available to human beings in the modern age, and invites the reader to undertake a personal odyssey of discovery, with a view to adopting a positive approach in an era that seems to offer no clear-cut answers.

This book is a comprehensive commentary on Thomas Mann's seminal novel, one of the key literary artefacts of the 20th century. The author has taken upon himself the task of explaining all the references and allusions contained in the novel, and of providing readers who know little or no German with enough explanatory comments to enable them to understand the novel and extract the maximum reading pleasure from it.



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«Puede que la vida de un lector se divida en dos: antes y después de haber leído La montaña mágica, de Thomas Mann.» -Mario Vargas Llosa



About the Author



Thomas Mann (1875#1955), genial ensayista y narrador alemán, nació en Lübeck (Alemania) en el seno de una familia de la alta burguesía. En 1891 se trasladó a Munich tras la muerte de su padre y no tardó en iniciar una intensa actividad literaria, dirigida sobre todo a revistas, hasta que a los veinticinco años publicó su primera novela, Los Buddenbrook (1901), que le otorgó una fama mundial inmediata. Sus siguientes obras #Tonio Kröger (1903), Alteza real (1909) y La muerte en Venecia (1912)# reflejan el intento del escritor por aprehender el mundo a través de valores estéticos. En los albores de la Primera Guerra Mundial publicó Señor y perro (1918) y Reflexiones de un apolítico (1918), obra que causó consternación en los círculos intelectuales al enarbolar la bandera del imperialismo alemán y atizar el odio contra Francia. Sin embargo, los movimientos revolucionarios de la Europa de posguerra le hicieron cambiar hacia posiciones socialdemócratas. Reflejo de esta etapa de transición es la novela La montaña mágica (1924), obra cumbre de la literatura universal. Más adelante publicó Mario y el mago (1929) y el ensayo «Sufrimientos y grandeza de Richard Wagner» (1933, contenido en el presente volumen), que jalona la trayectoria de su propia vida, la cual, desde ese mismo año, se convierte en un eterno exilio entre Zurich y California. Convertido ya en un ferviente defensor de la democracia en sus ensayos, en su obra narrativa #José y sus hermanos (1933-43), Carlota en Weimar (1939), Doctor Faustus (1947) o Confesiones del estafador Félix Krull (1954)# recurrió al mito para tratar los problemas del mundo moderno y defender los principios humanistas ante el peligro de una nueva barbarie. En 1929 la Academia Sueca le concedió el Premio Nobel de Literatura.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.5 Inches (H) x 4.9 Inches (W) x 2.2 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 1056
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Debolsillo
Format: Paperback
Author: Thomas Mann
Language: Spanish
Street Date: March 23, 2020
TCIN: 1007267565
UPC: 9788466352406
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-5280
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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