Literary Review: Zofia Nalkowska's 'Mountain Birds' and Europe's Past

A review of Polish writer Zofia Nalkowska's 1927 novel 'Mountain Birds,' which subtly portrays a 'sickly Europe' a century ago with national frictions and erotic turmoil in a sanatorium, drawing parallels to Thomas Mann's 'Magic Mountain.'

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Das kränkelnde Europa vor hundert Jahren – Zofia Nalkowskas subtiles Kardiogramm vom «Zauberberg»

Die polnische Schriftstellerin Zofia Nalkowska konnte Thomas Manns «Zauberberg» nicht kennen, als sie 1927 den Roman «Bergvögel» verfasste. Mit nationalen Reibereien und erotischem Wirbel im Sanatorium entfaltet er einen ironisch morbiden Reigen des Unglücks.

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