In The Magic Mountain, Castorp’s exposure to the intellectual battles between Settembrini and Naphta is as much a part of this journey toward a fuller understanding of life as is his growing devotion to the natural sciences. The aim of this type of novel - literally it means “novel of education” - is to show a young man’s self-education. Death in Venice was originally conceived to deal with Goethe’s life the tetralogy of Joseph and His Brothers is full of allusions to his life and his nineteenth-century visions of a social utopia Doctor Faustus and Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns), show the spiritual kinship even in the choice of titles and in The Magic Mountain two section headings are called to mind - “Walpurgis Night” and “A Soldier and Brave” - both direct references to Goethe’s Faust.Ĭoncerning The Magic Mountain, this novel represents Mann’s first attempt to create a modern version of Wilhelm Meister, Goethe’s classical bildungsroman. According to Mann’s own words, the life, thought, and works of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) influenced him considerably.
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