Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend
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Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend
Thomas Mann
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend
Thomas Mann
Descripción
"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.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 544 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Vintage |
Fecha de Publicación | 1999-07-27 |
Dimensiones | 8.01" x 5.26" x 0.94" pulgadas |
Serie | Vintage International |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | No |
Temas | Alemania |
Acerca del Autor
Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published. In 1924 The Magic Mountain was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948). Thomas Mann died in 1955.
Descripción
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-PorterDetalles
Formato | Tapa dura |
Número de Páginas | 580 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Everyman's Library |
Fecha de Publicación | 1992-06-02 |
Dimensiones | 8.18" x 5.21" x 1.21" pulgadas |
Serie | Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | No |
Acerca del Autor
Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published. In 1924 The Magic Mountain was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948). Thomas Mann died in 1955.
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Peso: | 0.608 kg |
SKU: | 9780679409960 |
Publicado en Unimart.com: | 15/10/24 |
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