A Reader's Guide to Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
Provides the English-speaking reader with the tools needed to appreciate Thomas Mann's most ambitious novel, one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century, now timely once again. In 1938, the great German author and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann emigrated to the United States. There,...
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| description | Provides the English-speaking reader with the tools needed to appreciate Thomas Mann's most ambitious novel, one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century, now timely once again. In 1938, the great German author and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann emigrated to the United States. There, he became a figurehead for the intellectual opposition to Nazism, giving more than 150 public lectures and recording more than fifty anti-Nazi radio addresses that the BBC broadcast into Germany. His political activities also left a profound mark on his fiction, most importantly on the 1947 novel Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend. Ostensibly the biography of a fictional modern composer, Doctor Faustus also serves as a post-mortem of Nazism and a reckoning with five centuries of cultural history that led to dazzling heights but failed to prevent Germany's ultimate fall. Doctor Faustus is an astonishingly complex novel, both because of the range of its intellectual references and because of its stylistic inventiveness, which has provoked comparisons with Joyce. And yet, at a time when democracy around the world once again seems in retreat and the forces of irrationalism are in advance, it is also an extremely timely book. This guide will equip English-speaking readers with all the tools necessary to appreciate one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. On publication this book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1611352025-06-05T05:11:05Z A Reader's Guide to Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus Boes, Tobias Thomas Mann Doctor Faustus Adrian Leverkühn German Composer Nazism Intellectual Opposition Cultural History Twentieth Century Literature Political Activities Stylistic Inventiveness Modern Composer Open Access thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLA Art music, orchestral and formal music thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHX Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship Provides the English-speaking reader with the tools needed to appreciate Thomas Mann's most ambitious novel, one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century, now timely once again. In 1938, the great German author and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann emigrated to the United States. There, he became a figurehead for the intellectual opposition to Nazism, giving more than 150 public lectures and recording more than fifty anti-Nazi radio addresses that the BBC broadcast into Germany. His political activities also left a profound mark on his fiction, most importantly on the 1947 novel Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend. Ostensibly the biography of a fictional modern composer, Doctor Faustus also serves as a post-mortem of Nazism and a reckoning with five centuries of cultural history that led to dazzling heights but failed to prevent Germany's ultimate fall. Doctor Faustus is an astonishingly complex novel, both because of the range of its intellectual references and because of its stylistic inventiveness, which has provoked comparisons with Joyce. And yet, at a time when democracy around the world once again seems in retreat and the forces of irrationalism are in advance, it is also an extremely timely book. This guide will equip English-speaking readers with all the tools necessary to appreciate one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. On publication this book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. 2025-06-05T05:11:03Z 2025-06-05T05:11:03Z 2025-06-04T14:14:31Z 2025 book ONIX_20250604T121726_9781805437147_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103351 9781805437147 9781640141803 9781805437154 9781640142237 9781571132192 9781571132482 9781640141988 9781571130709 9781571131935 9780938100713 9781571133564 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/161135 eng ger Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103351/1/9781805437147.pdf Boydell & Brewer Camden House 10.7722/HJDZ3096 10.7722/HJDZ3096 7b5beb75-2e34-4246-8da6-875fc8894f70 9781805437147 9781640141803 9781805437154 9781640142237 9781571132192 9781571132482 9781640141988 9781571130709 9781571131935 9780938100713 9781571133564 Camden House 160 Rochester open access |
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