Question

People hallucinate after drinking a mushroom-based liquor in a fictional, all-male one of these places in a novel narrated by the fungi in its floorboards. In another novel, a former plantation owner takes his colleagues from one of these places to a waterfall picnic, where the water muffles the announcement of his own suicide. A woman in one of these places constantly slams a glass door en route to the “Good Russian table” she shares with Marusya, the crush of the protagonist’s (*) cousin. Following a Walpurgis Night in one of these institutions, (10[1])a converted Jesuit arrives there to debate the Italian humanist Settembrini. In that novel, an engineer from Hamburg spends seven years in one of these institutions located (10[1])in Davos. For ten points, name this type of institution that Hans Castorp checks into in The Magic (10[1])Mountain. ■END■

ANSWER: sanatorium [or sanitarium; or sanitorium; accept health resort; prompt on hospital; prompt on mountain or Alps or The Magic Mountain or Der Zauberberg with “what type of institution is located there?”; prompt on dining hall or cafeteria with “What larger institution is that part of?”; prompt on Empusium] (The first line refers to Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium.)
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
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