Doctor Faustus - Softcover

Mann, T

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749386576 ISBN 13: 9780749386573

Verlag: Random House Uk, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Adrian Leverkuhn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilliant, but he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness, Adrian makes his pact with nature., Mann's interpretation of the Faustian legend is a story of madness and sanity, genius and corruption, intellectual attainment and Germany's moral fall.

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Críticas:

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." (The New Yorker)

"Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." (The New Republic)

"Arguably the great German novel" (New York Times)

"Perhaps not since Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus has a novelist conveyed so tangibly and exaltedly the mechanism and the aesthetic effect in musical performance" (New York Times)

"The real masterpiece" (New York Times)

Contraportada:

‘Arguably the great German novel’ New York Times

Adrian Leverkühn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer – creative and brilliant, but he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness, Adrian makes his pact with nature. Mann’s interpretation of the Faustian legend is a story of madness and sanity, genius and corruption, intellectual attainment and Germany’s moral fall.

See also: Mario and the Magician

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• Verlag: Random House Uk
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0749386576
• ISBN 13: 9780749386573
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 516