Doctor Faustus
The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkeuhn as Told by a Friend
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- Paperback
752 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1997
Summary
A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Adrian Leverk hn 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 attainm…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749386573 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0749386576 |
| Author: | Thomas Mann |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 752 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1997 |
| Weight: | 516g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 45mm |
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Critics Review
John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece.
Doctor Faustus is Mann’s deepest artistic gesture * 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 *
Mann struggled with his own conflicted feelings about Germany and German culture, and in his magisterial Doctor Faustus found the perfect metaphor for what his country had done; it had bargained with the devil, and lost. * The Herald *
About The Author
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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