Doctor Faustus: Introduction by T. J. Reed (Everyman's Library) - Hardcover

Mann, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679409963 ISBN 13: 9780679409960

Verlag: Everymans Library, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Mann Thomas

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Thomas Mann wrote his last great novel, Doctor Faustus, during his exile from Nazi Germany. Although he already had a long string of masterpieces to his name, in retrospect this seems to be the novel he was born to write.

A modern reworking of the Faust legend in which a twentieth-century composer sells his soul to the devil for the artistic power he craves, the story brilliantly interweaves music, philosophy, theology, and politics. Adrian Leverkühn is a talented young composer who is willing to go to any lengths to reach greater heights of achievement. What he gets is twenty-four years of genius—years of increasingly extraordinary musical innovation intertwined with progressive and destructive madness.

A scathing allegory of Germany’s renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism, Doctor Faustus is also a profound meditation on artistic genius. Obsessively exploring the evil into which his country had fallen, Mann succeeds as only he could have in charting the dimensions of that evil; his novel has both the pertinence of history and the universality of myth.
 
Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter
 
 

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This book is about Adrian Leverkuhn, a former theological student who has become a composer, who enters symbolically into a pact with the devil.

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• Verlag: Everymans Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679409963
• ISBN 13: 9780679409960
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 580