@article {Rendall85, author = {Thomas Rendall}, title = {Thomas Mann{\textquoteright}s Dantesque Zauberberg}, volume = {108}, number = {1}, pages = {85--98}, year = {2016}, doi = {10.3368/m.108.1.85}, publisher = {University of Wisconsin Press}, abstract = {Of the many parallels to Dante in Zauberberg the most intriguing occur in its presentation of the hero{\textquoteright}s love for Clawdia Chauchat. Castorp{\textquoteright}s comically elaborate courtship resembles Dante{\textquoteright}s courtly service to Beatrice, and the eventual broadening of his sentiments also resembles, in a more serious vein, the transformation of Dante{\textquoteright}s love from eros to caritas. When Dante is finally reunited with Beatrice at the top of the mountain of Purgatory, she is accompanied by a mythological animal representing Christ, and when Clawdia after long absence returns to Hans, she also has a new lover explicitly associated with the Saviour. As Dante ultimately recognizes the spiritual nature of his love, so Hans agrees with Clawdia to be bound by a newly chaste affection in mutual service to Peeperkorn. Dante{\textquoteright}s transformed love leads him to the presence of God, and whatever hope remains at the end of Zauberberg seems also to rest on the possibility of a love which can somehow go beyond the purely material and selfish.}, issn = {0026-9271}, URL = {https://mon.uwpress.org/content/108/1/85}, eprint = {https://mon.uwpress.org/content/108/1/85.full.pdf}, journal = {Monatshefte} }