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Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann
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Description for Doctor Faustus
Paperback. 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. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H. T. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 32. Weight in Grams: 548.
A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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.
'Arguably the great German novel' New York Times
THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY H. T. LOWE-PORTER
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749386573
SKU
9780749386573
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About Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lübeck, of a line of prosperous and influential merchants. Mann was educated under the discipline of North German schoolmasters before working for an insurance office aged nineteen. During this time he secretly wrote his first tale, Fallen, and shortly afterwards left the insurance office to study art and literature at the University in ... Read more
Reviews for Doctor Faustus
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more