Doctor Faustus (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Mann, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679600426 ISBN 13: 9780679600428

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1992

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Book by Mann Thomas LowePorter H T

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Mann's rendering of the classic Faust legend explores the goals, values, and conflicts of modern man

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orn was in my flesh," Mann said about the genesis of Doctor Faustus, which was composed during World War II.  "I knew what I was setting out to do and what task I was imposing upon myself:  to write nothing else than the novel of my era, disguised as the story of an artist's life, a terribly imperilled and sinful artist."
Adrian Leverkuhn, a former theological student who has become a composer, enters symbolically into a pact with the devil in exchange for two and a half decades of inspired work.  Narrated by Serenus Zeitblom, Leverkuhn's faithful friend, this retelling of the Faust legend turns on the composer's slow descent into syphilitic paralysis.  Densely orchestrated with musical constructions and what Mann called historical "montage", the book discourses on the tragedy of Germany, the Schonbergian twelve-tone system, Nietzche, the life of Tchaikovsky, and the introduction of syphilis into Europe.  Man

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679600426
• ISBN 13: 9780679600428
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 669