![]() Things become more complicated when two self-appointed mentors begin to struggle over Hans' German soul. ![]() The sanatorium's "enchanted" patients amuse themselves with love affairs, fads, and distractions as they await a cure (or death) in a world where time means something very different from time in the "flatlands." Hans Castorp falls hopelessly in love with a fellow patient, and is inspired to plunge into new worlds of study, tugged in different directions by love, idleness, learning, and passion. With an international clientele, the Berghof is a microcosm of a frivolous, distracted Europe on the eve of cataclysm. Hans comes for a stay of three weeks - but ends up staying seven years, after he himself is diagnosed with TB (or is it really love?). ![]() ![]() Hans Castorp, an "ordinary" young German orphan from Hamburg about to begin a dull shipbuilding apprenticeship, visits his tubercular cousin Joachim Ziemssen at the International Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps in the years before World War I. ![]()
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