![]() ![]() Hans Castorp-such as the young man’s name-sat alone in his little grey-upholstered compartment, with his alligator-skin handbag, a present from his uncle and guardian. ![]() ![]() You mount a narrow-gauge train and as the small but very powerful engine gets underway, there begins the thrilling part of the journey, a steep and steady climb that seems never to come to an end.įor the station of Landquart lies at a relatively low altitude, but now the wild and rocky route pushes grimly onward into the Alps themselves. ![]() The characteristic of such a novel is that it focuses not so much on the hero himself but on the course of his education. Here, after a long and windy wait in a spot devoid of charm. This novel, published in 1924 after twelve years of intermittent labor, is the story of the self-development of a 'simple, young man.' Its hero is the hero of a bildungsroman. You take the train again, but only as far as Landquart, a small Alpine station, where you have to change. It crosses all sorts of countries, goes uphill and down dale.ĭescends from the plateau of Southern Germany to the shore of Lake Constance, over its bounding waves and on across marshes once thought to be bottomless.Īt this point, the route, which has been so far over trunk lines, gets up. AN UNASSUMING young man was traveling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks’ visit.įrom Hamburg to Davos is a long journey – too long, indeed, for so brief a stay. ![]()
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