The Western Literary Canon in Context

The Magic Mountain and the Modern Institutions (1x30)

Data emisji: Sty 01, 2008

Continue examining Modernism in the Western literary canon by looking at The Magic Mountain, a novel emblematic of the literary call to address the dilemmas of Europe after World War I. In Thomas Mann's case, the prominent dilemma is the physical and psychological institutionalization of the individual and of society.