| Doctor Faustus: Introduction by T. J. Reed Contributor(s): Mann, Thomas (Author), Lowe-Porter, H. T. (Translator), Reed, T. J. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679409963 ISBN-13: 9780679409960 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1992 Annotation: This book is about Adrian Leverkuhn, a former theological student who has become a composer, who enters symbolically into a pact with the devil. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Fantasy - General |
| Dewey: 833.912 |
| LCCN: 91053192 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 5.21" W x 8.18" (1.34 lbs) 580 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Leverk hn 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 |