دکتر فاستوس

Thomas Manns last great novel, first published in 1947 and now 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. Manns 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.Leverkühns life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germanys renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and its nihilism. It is also Manns most profound meditation on the German genius - both national and individual - and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist.