Thomas Manns The Magic Mountain (1987)

A novel of ideas at once serious and comic, The Magic Mountain offers a birdseye view of the political, philosophical, and social landscapes of preWorld War I Europe. This program uses provocative dramatizations of key scenes from Thomas Manns grotesque bildungsroman and employs the character of Mann himself, in a recreation of a 1939 lecture, as a guide to the storys heights and depths. In addition, Manns biographer, Nigel Hamilton, inquires into the storys manipulation of time and the effects of environment on identity. This is part of the Ten Great Writers of the Modern World series: Ten Great Writers Seminar: Franz Kafka: Fyodor Dostoevksy: Henrik Ibsen: James Joyce: Luigi Pirandello: T. S. Eliot: Joseph Conrad: Virginia Woolf: y