No simple symbolic figure, Leverkühn is himself, almost paradoxically, a morally driven man in the vortex of an entire culture's self-destruction.
The story of his life becomes an apocalyptic narrative of his country's moral collapse as it surges into the catastrophe of World War II. He is isolated, brilliant, a radical experimenter who both plays and thinks at the very edges of artistic possibility. This modern Faust is a great artist: Leverkühn is a musical genius who trades body and soul in a Mephistophelian bargain for twenty-four years of triumph as the world's greatest composer. Mann's protagonist, Adrian Leverkühn, is one of the most significant characters in the literature of our era, for it is in him that Mann centers the tragedy of Germany's seduction by evil. Woods, of one of Thomas Mann's most famous and important novels: his modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which twentieth-century Germany sells its soul to the devil.
The new translation, by the masterly John E. Doctor Faustus, una de las obras más profundas del autor, reflexiona acerca de la figura del genio, al mismo tiempo que propone el mito de fausto como un reflejo de la realidad de su tiempo. A pesar del éxito, Adrian aspira a más hasta el punto de vender su alma y renunciar a cualquier posibilidad de amar. Su obra, una música nueva, rompedora, radical y de ritmo acelerado, parece estar al filo de lo imposible. Su protagonista, Adrian Leverkühn, es un compositor brillante, así como un hombre solitario y exigente. La última gran novela de Thomas Mann es una reinterpretación del mito de Fausto. Description Una reinterpretación del gran mito inmortalizado por Goethe.
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