# The Magic Mountain — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

- [Translator’s Note](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/translator-s-note.md): The translator acknowledges the scholars who assisted with the specialized content of the novel, reflects on the profound difficulty of translating a work of genius where word and thought are indivisible, and justifies t
- [The Magic Mountain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/the-magic-mountain.md): The chapter introduces the novel's setting and protagonist, Hans Castorp, as he arrives by train at the International Sanatorium Berghof in Davos. He is there to visit his cousin, Joachim Ziemssen, for a three-week stay.
- [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/chapter-i.md): Hans Castorp arrives at the Berghof sanatorium in Davos to visit his cousin Joachim Ziemssen. He is introduced to the strange, rarefied atmosphere of the place, meets several residents including Herr Settembrini, and has
- [Arrival](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/arrival.md): Hans Castorp travels from Hamburg to the International Sanatorium Berghof in Davos for a three-week visit to his cousin Joachim Ziemssen. The journey, marked by a profound sense of dislocation and the altering effects of
- [Number 34](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/number-34.md): Hans Castorp arrives at the Berghof sanatorium and is shown to his room by his cousin Joachim. He is in a state of nervous exhaustion and giddiness from the journey and Joachim's descriptions of sanatorium life. He learn

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- [In the Restaurant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/in-the-restaurant.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/chapter-ii.md)
- [Of the Christening Basin, and of Grandfather in His Twofold Guise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/of-the-christening-basin-and-of-grandfather-in-his-twofold-guise.md)
- [At Tienappels’, and of Young Hans’s Moral State](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/at-tienappels-and-of-young-hans-s-moral-state.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/chapter-iii.md)
- [Drawing the Veil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/drawing-the-veil.md)
- [Breakfast](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/breakfast.md)
- [Banter. Viaticum. Interrupted Mirth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/banter-viaticum-interrupted-mirth.md)
- [Satana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/satana.md)
- [Mental Gymnastic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/mental-gymnastic.md)
- [A Word Too Much](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/a-word-too-much.md)
- [Of Course, a Female!](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/of-course-a-female.md)
- [Herr Albin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/herr-albin.md)
- [Satana Makes Proposals That Touch Our Honour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/satana-makes-proposals-that-touch-our-honour.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/chapter-iv.md)
- [Necessary Purchases](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/necessary-purchases.md)
- [Excursus on the Sense of Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/excursus-on-the-sense-of-time.md)
- [He Practises His French](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/he-practises-his-french.md)
- [Politically Suspect](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/politically-suspect.md)
- [Hippe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/hippe.md)
- [Analysis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/analysis.md)
- [Doubts and Considerations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/doubts-and-considerations.md)
- [Table-Talk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/table-talk.md)
- [Mounting Misgivings. Of the Two Grandfathers, and the Boat-Ride in the Twilight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/mounting-misgivings-of-the-two-grandfathers-and-the-boat-ride-in-the-twilight.md)
- [The Thermometer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/the-thermometer.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/chapter-v.md)
- [Soup-Everlasting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/soup-everlasting.md)
- [Sudden Enlightenment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/sudden-enlightenment.md)
- [Freedom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/freedom.md)
- [Whims of Mercurius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/whims-of-mercurius.md)
- [Encyclopaedic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/encyclopaedic.md)
- [Humaniora](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/humaniora.md)
- [Research](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/research.md)
- [The Dance of Death](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/the-dance-of-death.md)
- [Walpurgis-Night](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/walpurgis-night.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/chapter-vi.md)
- [Changes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/changes.md)
- [A Newcomer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/a-newcomer.md)
- [Of the City of God, and Deliverance by Evil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/of-the-city-of-god-and-deliverance-by-evil.md)
- [Choler. And Worse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/choler-and-worse.md)
- [An Attack, and a Repulse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/an-attack-and-a-repulse.md)
- [Operationes Spirituales](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/operationes-spirituales.md)
- [Snow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/snow.md)
- [A Soldier, and Brave](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/a-soldier-and-brave.md)
- [Chapter VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/chapter-vii.md)
- [By the Ocean of Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/by-the-ocean-of-time.md)
- [Mynheer Peeperkorn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/mynheer-peeperkorn.md)
- [Vingt-Et-Un](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/vingt-et-un.md)
- [Mynheer Peeperkorn (Continued)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/mynheer-peeperkorn-continued.md)
- [Mynheer Peeperkorn (Conclusion)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/mynheer-peeperkorn-conclusion.md)
- [The Great God Dumps](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/the-great-god-dumps.md)
- [Fullness of Harmony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/fullness-of-harmony.md)
- [Highly Questionable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/highly-questionable.md)
- [Hysterica Passio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/hysterica-passio.md)
- [The Thunderbolt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/the-thunderbolt.md)

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