Davos and Mann

Davos, site of the World Economic Forum (q.v.,) is also the setting of Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain. Davos, before ski resort and Worldcon of the World’s elites, was a sanitorium town. The novel takes place in the wake of World War One at one of the hotel/sanitoriums where young, wealthy Europeans waited out death from tuberculosis.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on January 24, 2000 at 12:00 am and filed under books, culture. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.