Description: Up for sale is a 1948 American 1st Edition/1st Printing copy of "DOCTOR FAUSTUS: THE LIFE OF THE GERMAN COMPOSER ADRIAN LEVERKUHN" by Thomas Mann.Thomas Mann's last great novel 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 its 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.
Price: 14 USD
Location: Pawling, New York
End Time: 2024-02-12T22:26:44.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4.87 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Thomas Mann
Region: North America
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Topic: Historical
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1948
