Word: castorp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hans Castorp eats, sleeps, falls in love with Madame Chauchat, talks to his cousin Joachim, he reproduces in miniature man living in a community of death. The other dwellers on the magic mountain, likewise specializations of humanity in the large, significant and tiny, make irritable and oblivious motions in front of the backdrop of disaster...
...second volume Hans Castorp comes down in time to fight in the World War. He is scarcely conscious of the masque in which he has been an actor. Yet he is no longer a total blank as on his arrival. He has listened to Settembrini talking democratic politics. Peeperkorn, who has won Madame Chauchat and dominated Castorp with the rest, is the first...