Thomas Mann 
Magic Mountain(The First Volume) 

The unniversity student Hans came to the sanatorium for mountain lung disease to visit his cousin Joachim, only to find that he had contracted the disease himself, and had to stay and be treated. People come from different places with unqiue personalities and thoughts.Hans was a young man of ideals, but he became confused and depressed with these people; The Russian woman, Klavgya, fascinated him even more. He forgot his career and heavy responsibility. The mountain became a "magic mountain" and he could not extricate himself from it. Seven years had passed, and his cousin had died, and Klavgya had left him, and his close friends had gone their separate ways, and life had shattered his fancies one by one, and made him miserable and lonely. The gunfire of the world war shook him up, and when he looked back, Hans felt that he had been asleep on the "magic mountain" for seven years, so he resolutely set out on his way to the front. The novel scene is grand, and the characters are numerous; It is composed of two main lines: describing the triangle love between protagonist Hans, Klavgya, and the wealthy businessman Pilcopine, revealing the contradiction between life and death, between the spirit and the flesh; The struggle between the Democrats and the militarists reflects the mental outlook of the German intellectuals before the first world war and the opposition of different ideological views.