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Karen Karstedt
James Tienappel is Hans’s favorite uncle. He visits Hans at the Berghof sometime after Joachim has left to return to his military service. James’s primary reason for visiting is to convince Hans to leave the sanatorium, but he is ultimately unsuccessful. Upon his arrival at the Berghof, Tienappel takes in the sanatorium with the same ambivalence that Hans did when he first got there, simultaneously disturbed and transfixed by the otherworldly place. Ultimately, however, he reacts with disgust when Behrens, at Hans’s prompting, describes the gory reality of what happens to a human body as it decomposes. James leaves first thing the next morning without saying goodbye to Hans, and they don’t see each other again.
Uncle James Tienappel Quotes in The Magic Mountain
The The Magic Mountain quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle James Tienappel or refer to Uncle James Tienappel. 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 6, Chapter 5: An Attack Repulsed Quotes
And that was the end of the attempt by the flatlands to reclaim Hans Castorp. The young man admitted quite openly to himself that such total failure, which he had seen coming, was of decisive importance for his relationship to the people down there. For the flatlands it meant a final shrug, the abandonment of any claim; for him, however, it meant freedom finally won, and by now his heart no longer fluttered at the thought.
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Hans’s uncle James Tienappel, who visited Hans at the Berghof with a plan to convince Hans to come home, has just left without saying goodbye. James’s introduction to the Berghof was uncannily similar to Hans’s: he found the strange, unfamiliar place simultaneously repulsive and alluring. Yet while Hans gave into that allure, James recognized the danger of doing so and left before it could happen. In James’s absence, Hans reflects on the “decisive importance” of this moment. Now that his favorite uncle regards him as a lost cause and perhaps even a source of shame, “the flatlands” can no longer 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
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Uncle James Tienappel Character Timeline in The Magic Mountain
The timeline below shows where the character Uncle James Tienappel appears in The Magic Mountain. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 2, Chapter 2: At the Tienappels’/Hans Castorp’s Moral State
...a garden out front that is impeccably neat. The Consul has two sons, Peter and James. Peter is in the navy and rarely home, meanwhile James works for the family wine...
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Part 4, Chapter 5: Hippe
...certainty never removed them, and so they might even still be in his desk at Uncle Tienappel ’s. It’s Hippe, Hans now realizes, whom Frau Chauchat reminds him of. They look oddly...
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Part 5, Chapter 3: Freedom
...Settembrini, returns to his room and writes a letter to his favorite of his uncles, James Tienappel, telling him to inform the consul that Hans will have to stay at the...
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Part 6, Chapter 5: An Attack Repulsed
For the next few days, there’s a guest at the table: Hans’s uncle James Tienappel. It feels strange to Hans to have someone from his old life here in...
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After James arrives, he passes along Hans’s other relatives’ regards. He also updates Hans about Joachim, noting...
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On James’s first night at the Berghof, Hans gets James situated in Joachim’s old room, where he’ll...
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The next day, James meets Behrens in the dining hall. Behrens enthusiastically tells James that it’s great he’s here—not...
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Later, James meets the head nurse when she drops by his room to tell him that he’ll...
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On James’s sixth day at the Berghof, he finally has his meeting with Behrens. He goes into...
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