Open AccessLA MONTAÑA MÁGICA Y LA COVID-19. LA LITERATURA SIEMPRE
Author(s) -
Silvia Elizabeth Alvarez Arana,
Gabriel Velázquez Toledo
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
espacio i+d. innovación más desarrollo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2007-6703
DOI - 10.31644/imasd.25.2020.a12
Subject(s) - psyche , covid-19 , archetype , magic (telescope) , humanities , german , philosophy , psychoanalysis , art , literature , psychology , physics , medicine , quantum mechanics , linguistics , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The purpose of this essay is to show how the German novel The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann captured, from different perspectives, the effects that isolation and diseases have on the human mind. The author wrote it in such a way that, even after the 100-year gap between tubercu-losis and COVID-19, the argument’s relevance and the characters’ develop-ment through their actions and emotions are a reflection of the current archetype. Thus, we can notice a parallel between the aesthetic image of the havoc in the protagonist’s psyche and the emerging conclusions about mental health during this crisis, that have been growing thus far.