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Author: Thomas Mann
Number of Pages: 523 pages
Published Date: 24 Jun 2011
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780679409960
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Thomas Mann wrote his last great novel, "Doctor Faustus," during his exile from Nazi Germany. Although he already had a long string of masterpieces to his name, in retrospect this seems to be the novel he was born to write. A modern reworking of the Faust legend in which a twentieth-century composer sells his soul to the devil for the artistic power he craves, the story brilliantly interweaves music, philosophy, theology, and politics. Adrian Leverkuhn is a talented young composer who is willing to go to any lengths to reach greater heights of achievement. What he gets is twenty-four years of genius years of increasingly extraordinary musical innovation intertwined with progressive and destructive madness. A scathing allegory of Germany s renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism, "Doctor Faustus" is also a profound meditation on artistic genius. Obsessively exploring the evil into which his country had fallen, Mann succeeds as only he could have in charting the dimensions of that evil; his novel has both the pertinence of history and the universality of myth. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter "