I don't watch every episode, but I like Strange Lucidity YouTube channel. I don't know her name. She's a European literature student, Austrian, and goes to France at some point. She speaks in English, and read a little of the German just for a small taste to hear it for her English speaking audience. She has a sweet demeanor. She worked with people with disabilities, if I remember correctly. Anyway, she gave an introduction, and gives her email address. So I'm going to try and read this book. Kickoff video on YouTube . She prefers the John E. Woods translation to the other. The Magic Mountain was published in 1924, and I missed the centennial last year. Thomas Mann lived 1875-1955. He lived a life of a repressed homosexual married to a woman. First he studied sciences, then history, economics, art history and literature for journalism. Mann lived in Munich from 1891 until 1933 except he lived in Palestrina Italy for a year with his novelist broth...