About the book: 2005 / In Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" there is a phrase that prompted Pavel Hülle to write an entire novel called "Castorp". This phrase - “Left behind are the four semesters spent by him (the main character of T. Mann's novel, Hans Castorp) at the Danzig Polytechnic ...” - is included in the epigraph. Hülle lives in Gdansk (until 1918 - Danzig). This beautiful ancient city is a full-fledged character in all his books, and it is not surprising that from his youth, according to the writer, he “invented” the events that happened in his homeland with the hero of “The Magic Mountain”. P. Hülle’s novel is like a chapter missed by T. Mann: Hans Castorp’s experience on Danzig soil shocked the impressionable young man and changed a lot in him. The author set himself a difficult task: his Castorp had to correspond to Mann’s image, but at the same time the story could not be allowed to fade in the shadow of the great German’s book. And Pavel Hülle, according to Polish criticism, coped with his task.