A "magic mountain" is a tubercular sanatorium in Swiss Alps. His inhabitants force to be here for years, intermingling with the outer world only by rare letters and telegrams. Here time flows unnoticed, life and death lose sense, and shallow nuances of human relations, opposite, acquire a sickly sharpness and meaningfulness. Love, merriment, friendship, enmity, jealousy for the inhabitants of sanatorium as if marked shade nonexistence.This history has a great number of the possible reading is the most powerful philosophical research of vital bases, thin psychological analysis of different types of human character, relations, immersion in history of culture, religions and in history in general - god Send represented society in eve First world war.