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What Is The Most Important Quality Of This Novel Which Make It Such a Epic Literary Work ?
Greg That if you take a group of random people and put them in a new setting, they resume the same roles as before. The snobs have esoteric arguments that …mǰThat if you take a group of random people and put them in a new setting, they resume the same roles as before. The snobs have esoteric arguments that are mostly nonsense, the horndogs get laid with whomever is at their dinner table, those with a great attitude about life continue that attitude as they just laugh and have a good time. The central character, Hans, is the kind of person always looking for meaning, and at the spectacularly unexpected and weird ending, he finds that perhaps there is no meaning in anything at all.(less)
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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
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