Doctor Faustus
  • Published: 1 January 1997
  • ISBN: 9780749386573
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 752
  • RRP: $39.99

Doctor Faustus

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Paperback
1 Jan 1997
EBook
30 Nov 2017
Hardback
15 May 1992
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A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century

A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Adrian Leverkühn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilliant, but he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness, Adrian makes his pact with nature. Mann's interpretation of the Faustian legend is a story of madness and sanity, genius and corruption, intellectual attainment and Germany's moral fall.

'Arguably the great German novel' New York Times

THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY H. T. LOWE-PORTER
  • Published: 1 January 1997
  • ISBN: 9780749386573
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 752
  • RRP: $39.99
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Praise for Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture

The New Republic

Arguably the great German novel

New York Times

Perhaps not since Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus has a novelist conveyed so tangibly and exaltedly the mechanism and the aesthetic effect in musical performance

New York Times

The real masterpiece

New York Times

Mann struggled with his own conflicted feelings about Germany and German culture, and in his magisterial Doctor Faustus found the perfect metaphor for what his country had done; it had bargained with the devil, and lost.

The Herald
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