Doctor Faustus
$36.31
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2026
Summary
‘Why must I feel that almost all—no, all—of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?’
Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough from traditional art to extreme modernism and success. Creative and brilliant, he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness.
Thomas Mann wrote Doctor Faustus (1947) in American exile during and just after the Second World War. A prominent and long-standing defender of d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198867722 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198867727 |
| Author: | Thomas Mann, Ritchie Robertson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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About The Author
Thomas Mann
Ritchie Robertson retired in 2021 as Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of the Queen’s College. His many books include Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (1985), The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 (2020) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024), as well as books on Kafka and Goethe in OUP’s Very Short Introductions series. Since 2004, he has been a Fellow of the British Academy.
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