![]() It is only the imminent threat of the First World War that at last provokes him to return to the life he left so long ago. She leaves the sanatorium and Hans clings to his illness in orderto wait for her return. ![]() During his stay, Hans falls in love with a beautiful Russian patient, Clavdia, who does not return his love. He loses all sense of time and gives himself up to a community with its own rules and morality. ![]() Before Hans can leave he is himself diagnosed with TB and ends up staying for seven years. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain Dramatised by Olwen Wymark In 1907, Hans Castorp, a young engineer, travels to a sanatorium in the Alps to visit his tubercular cousin Joachim. ![]()
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