ler totalmente Doctor Faustus: Introduction by T. J. Reed

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

Procurando Doctor Faustus: Introduction by T. J. Reed? Aqui você encontra tudo sobre este livro de Thomas Mann, publicado por Everyman's Library em 2 de junho de 1992. Nesta página estão a descrição da obra, os detalhes da edição (580 páginas) e os formatos disponíveis para baixar: pdf, epub, txt, djvu. Se você gosta de Livros Internacionais, Crônicas, Humor e Entretenimento, Humor, Sátira, explore também outros títulos da mesma categoria no Encontrando os melhores livros. Veja ainda as outras obras de Thomas Mann em nosso catálogo.