Empuzjon by Olga TokarczukMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Young student of engineering comes to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Gorbersdorf.
Year 1913.
Similarity with The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann is obvious.
For me it was a disadvantage for the book.
Hans Castorp comes to Davos for 3 weeks, to visit his cousin. After few days he gets so enchanted with the athmosphere on the mountain, that he stays there 7 years.
It justifies the title - The Magic Mountain.
Mieczysław Wojnicz comes to Gorbersdorf for a short, 3 months, stay and everything goes according to the plan.
So, where is the story?
It requires some magic, nasty female demons - empusa - to add some nerve and tension.
Otherwise there would be no story.
The story as it is told left me with distaste.
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