Karolina Watroba is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Modern Languages at All Souls College, University of Oxford, where she is also affiliated with the German Sub-Faculty and the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre. She works on modern literature and film across eight European languages and beyond, with a focus on material in German, English, and Polish. She grew up in Krakow, Poland, before moving to Oxford, where she studied German and comparative literature, including a year at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, with funding from the Ertegun Scholarship, the Clarendon Fund, and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

• Introduction


• 1: Economy


• 2: Emotions


• 3: Erudition


• Conclusion

The first study of Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, 1924) that takes as its starting point the interest in Mann's book shown by non-academic readers, delving into the interrelated fields of transnational German studies, global modernism studies, comparative literature, and reception theory.