The Magic Mountain
It seems that no one has yet interpreted isolation in terms of a spell. In Mann’s novel, a metaphor for the crisis of European culture, the sanatorium in the mountains was a place where patients could detach from socio-political reality and focus on the inner processes set in motion by their illness. Immersed in the daily routine of the spa and absorbed by their own selves, they succumbed to the spell of isolation.
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