| Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend Contributor(s): Mann, Thomas (Author), Woods, John E. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0375701168 ISBN-13: 9780375701160 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1999 Annotation: "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 Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkuhn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul--and the ability to love his fellow man. Leverkuhn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius--both national and individual--and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.26" W x 8.01" (0.95 lbs) 544 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverk hn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul--and the ability to love his fellow man. Leverk hn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius--both national and individual--and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist. |