# Lawyer Paravant — The Magic Mountain character guide

> Lawyer Paravant in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Paravant, the devoted Paravant

**First appearance:** 0036-encyclopaedic

## Who they are

A patient obsessed with mathematical problems, representing the intellectual diversions of the sanatorium.

## In the story

### [Analysis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/analysis)

A rapt listener who flicks his ear to hear better and nods weightily in approval at Krokowski's conclusions.

### [Encyclopaedic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/encyclopaedic)

Cited in the gossip about broken and new romantic bonds among the patients, specifically his ended affair with Frau Salomon and potential rivalry over Frau Consul-General Wurmbrandt.

### [Choler. And Worse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/choler-and-worse)

Mentioned by Behrens as a patient who took his advice to study mathematics (squaring the circle) to combat lust, with good results.

### [The Great God Dumps](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/the-great-god-dumps)

The virtuoso of geometric puzzles, now monomaniacally devoted to the impossible problem of squaring the circle, having overcome his earlier fleshly lusts.

### [Highly Questionable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/highly-questionable)

A participant in the séances; mentioned as having pocketed up a slap from the spirit Holger.

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