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.
In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul-and the ability to love his fellow man.
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. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. 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 revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." - The New Yorker " Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture.
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