Doctor Faustus
$25.12
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2027
Summary
‘Arguably the great German novel’ - New York Times
‘This man is mad. Of that there can no longer be any doubt, and it is pitiable that no one representing psychiatric science is part of our circle.’
Germany, May 1943. A middle-aged scholar retires to his study to reflect on the life and untimely death of his friend, a once-brilliant composer. How his friend, consumed by over-reaching ambition, entered into a pact with the Devil. How he enjoyed twenty-four years of musical geni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241785416 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241785413 |
| Author: | Thomas Mann, John E. Woods |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
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 *
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is regarded by many as the greatest German novelist of the 20th century. Mann’s first major novel, Buddenbrooks, sold over a million copies in Germany alone, before Hitler banned and burned it. Mann fled Germany and spent the latter part of his life living in Switzerland and America. He wrote many essays as well as novels, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
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