Plague Chronicle Book Club: Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

I’ve decided to make the Book Club a biannual event, with a work of fiction in the Fall and a work of non-fiction in the Spring. Since I’ve spent the last week in the Swiss Alps, I’m inspired to put Thomas Mann’s 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) on the programme for 30 November. Its themes have numerous points of intersection with those o…