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Hans’s Grandfather
The Austrian horseman is a resident of the Berghof. The day Hans first arrives at the Berghof, he overhears the man’s horrific, sickly cough, and the experience quite affects him. Indeed, the man’s cough seems to be the catalyst that sets Hans’s intellectual pursuit to uncover the underlying meaning behind illness and death into motion.
The Austrian Horseman Quotes in The Magic Mountain
The The Magic Mountain quotes below are all either spoken by The Austrian Horseman or refer to The Austrian Horseman. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1, Chapter 2: Room 34
Quotes
It was a cough, apparently—a man’s cough, but a cough unlike any that Hans Castorp had ever heard; indeed, compared to it, all other coughs with which he was familiar had been splendid, healthy expressions of life—a cough devoid of any zest for life or love, which didn’t come in spasms, but sounded as if someone were stirring feebly in a terrible mush of decomposing organic material.
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The Austrian Horseman Quotes in The Magic Mountain
The The Magic Mountain quotes below are all either spoken by The Austrian Horseman or refer to The Austrian Horseman. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1, Chapter 2: Room 34
Quotes
It was a cough, apparently—a man’s cough, but a cough unlike any that Hans Castorp had ever heard; indeed, compared to it, all other coughs with which he was familiar had been splendid, healthy expressions of life—a cough devoid of any zest for life or love, which didn’t come in spasms, but sounded as if someone were stirring feebly in a terrible mush of decomposing organic material.
Related Characters:
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Explanation and Analysis:
