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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:
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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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Hans has just arrived at the Berghof. He and Joachim are walking down the hallway on their way to get something to eat when Hans hears the horrific, unsettling sound of a sick man’s cough. This is a significant moment in Hans’s development because it’s his first experience with illness since arriving at the Berghof. Joachim is sick, of course, but the tubercular cough that Hans hears in this moment represents a severity of illness Hans has never before encountered. Over the course of his long stay at the Berghof, Hans will spend considerable time thinking about the significance of Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam. Eum accusamus harum. Accusantium iusto voluptas. Totam quae corporis. Impedit non ut. Incidunt rerum est. Aperiam doloremque eu
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The Austrian Horseman Character Timeline in The Magic Mountain
The timeline below shows where the character The Austrian Horseman appears in The Magic Mountain. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1, Chapter 3: In the Restaurant
...down the hill on a bobsled, with Dr. Krokowski steering the sled and the coughing Austrian horseman sitting at the front. Joachim repeats how coughing “doesn’t matter to us—to us up here”...
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Part 5, Chapter 8: Danse Macabre
The Austrian horseman dies shortly after Christmas. Hans is especially struck by the death because the horseman’s cough...
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After the Austrian horseman dies, Hans and Joachim visit the man’s room and find his widow there, disheveled and...
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...separate rooms, Hans condemns the sanatorium’s practice of hiding death (staff will likely remove the Austrian horseman ’s body from the premises while everyone is eating supper) as “immoral.” Hans decides that...
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