Thomas Manns Doctor Faustus

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375701168
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Faustus written by Thomas Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-07-27 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Leverkühn, 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. Leverkühn'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.

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Faustus written by Thomas Mann and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Doctor Faustus" by Thomas Mann. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Faustus written by Thomas Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1971 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Leverkühn, 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. Leverkühn'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.

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0679409963
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Faustus written by Thomas Mann and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1992-06-02 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Leverkühn 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

Author : Herbert Lehnert
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780938100737
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus written by Herbert Lehnert and published by Camden House (NY). This book was released on 1991 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by eminent German and American scholars assessing the contemporary research on Thomas Mann's late novel.

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Download or read book THOMAS MANN'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS: THE SOURCES AND STRUCTURE OF THE NOVEL written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John F. Fetzer
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571130709
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Perceptions of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus written by John F. Fetzer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1996 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since its appearance in 1947, Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus has generated heated reactions among critics. Whereas initial ideological differences stemming from the Cold War and the division of Germany have abated following the reunification of 1990, diverse opinions and controversies persist about Mann's daring treatment of the Faust theme. These include such topics as the political stance of the author and the historical dimensions of the novel; the biographical and autobiographical and backgrounds of the workespecially in light of the subsequent publication of Mann's diaries and private notebooks; the writer's sexual and psychological proclivities; the thorny issues of montage, collage, and intertextuality; musical concerns such as the extent to which the novel's protagonist appropriates as his own Arnold Schonberg's twelve-tone system of composition or the role of Mann's fellow exile and mentor, Theodor W. Adorno, in indoctrinating his "pupil" into avant-garde musical techniques; the degree to which the novel exhibits structural features of the music on which the narrative focuses; and the function of certain mythic prototypes for this modern parody in fashioning the fortunes and fate of Adrian Leverkuhn. A provocative and still unresolved question centers on the precise role played by Goethe's Faust in the conception and execution of Doctor Faustus, in spite of Mann's assertion that his version of the legend had "nothing in common" with the work of his famous predecessor. Finally, the presence of strong visual elements in the novel leads to an assessment of the critical reception accorded Franz Seitz's film adaptation of Doctor Faustus (1982), a dicey subject in Manncircles, since few filmed versions of his novellas or novels have enjoyed an unsullied reputation.

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788432222078
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doktor Faustus written by Thomas Mann and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Beddow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521375924
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mann: Doctor Faustus written by Michael Beddow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. Through the figures of the solitary avant-garde composer, Adrian Leverkühn, and his often bemused biographer Serenus Zeitblom, Mann explores Germany's self-understanding and self-assertion. The novel intermingles fiction and history in a narrative that combines complex psychological analysis, virtuoso stylistic parody and vivid evocation of atmosphere and milieu. Michael Beddow analyses the structure of the plot and explores the significance of its chief historical, theological, psychological and musical themes. He considers Mann's understanding and modification of the Faust tradition, his thematic and formal indebtedness to Nietzsche and his interest in Adorno's neo-Marxism. The study concludes with an account of the work's generally hostile reception in defeated Germany.

Author : Michael Beddow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521375757
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus written by Michael Beddow and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. Through the figures of the solitary avant-garde composer, Adrian Leverkühn, and his often bemused biographer Serenus Zeitblom, Mann explores Germany's self-understanding and self-assertion. The novel intermingles fiction and history in a narrative that combines complex psychological analysis, virtuoso stylistic parody and vivid evocation of atmosphere and milieu. Michael Beddow analyses the structure of the plot and explores the significance of its chief historical, theological, psychological and musical themes. He considers Mann's understanding and modification of the Faust tradition, his thematic and formal indebtedness to Nietzsche and his interest in Adorno's neo-Marxism. The study concludes with an account of the work's generally hostile reception in defeated Germany.