[.ca] La Montana Magica (ISBN 8435016269)

A European "Bélle Epoque"Encyclopedia:
This novel works like a huge and beautiful testimony of the years before the Great War in Europe. It transcends the limits of the genre and becomes a great Encyclopedia full of fascinating characters, archetypes and allegories. The intelectual battle between Naphta and Settembrini (the religious and social view between the liberal and individualistic perspective) is, maybe, the most perfect chronicle of a philosophical and political controversy that hasn't end yet. At the end we all scream with the chilling scene of the duel and cry with Hans Castorp`s fate.