Castorp is named after Hans Castorp, the main character of 1924 Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain. According to Steve Alpert, Castorp is inspired by Richard Sorge, a Soviet spy who worked undercover in Nazi Germany and Empire of Japan.
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Hans Castorp, fictional character, a young German engineer who is the protagonist of the novel The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann.