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The new translation, by John E. Woods, of one of Thomas Mann's most famous and important novels: his modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which twentieth-century Germany sells its soul to the devil.
Mann's protagonist, Adrian Leverkuhn, is one of the most significant characters in the literature of our era, for it is in him that Mann centers the tragedy of Germany's seduction by evil. This modern Faust is a great artist: Leverkuhn is a musical genius who trades body and soul in a Mephistophelian bargain for twenty-four years of triumph as the world's greatest composer. He is isolated, brilliant, a radical experimenter who both plays and thinks at the very edges of artistic possibility.
The story of his life becomes an apocalyptic narrative of his country's moral collapse as it surges into the catastrophe of World War II. No simple symbolic figure, Leverkuhn is himself, almost paradoxically, a morally driven man in the vortex of an entire culture's self-destruction.
Through the story of Leverkuhn's life and death, Mann not only gave us his most profound writing on the very nature and heart of all art, but also forced his countrymen (the novel was first published fifty years ago, in 1947) to come face-to-face with how they had fallen prey to all that was most lethal in their heritage.
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Fiction, History, Composers, German language materials, Entstehung des Doktor Faustus (Mann, Thomas), Political fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Germany, fiction, Fiction, political, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, German literature, German fictionPeople
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Doctor Faustus
1997, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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Doctor Faustus: the life of the German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, as told by a friend
1992, Vintage International
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- 1st Vintage International ed.
067973905X 9780679739050
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Doctor Faustus: the life of the German composer Adrian Leverkühn as told by a friend
1992, The Modern Library
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0679600426 9780679600428
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Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
October 12, 1971, Vintage
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Doctor Faustus: the life of the German composer, Adrian Leverkühn
1948, A. A. Knopf
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Doktor Faustus: das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn
1947, Bermann-Fischer
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Doktor Faustus: das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverku hn
1947, Bermann-Fischer
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A new translation of a 1948 novel by a German writer based on the Faust legend. The protagonist is Adrian Leverkuhn, a musical genius who trades his body and soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of triumph as the world's greatest composer.
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