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Doctor Faustus

Landmarks of World Literature

By: Michael Beddow, J.P. Stern (Editor)

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Paperback | 29 September 1994

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In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. Through the figures of the solitary avant-garde composer, Adrian Leverkuhn, and his often bemused biographer Serenus Zeitblom, Mann explores Germany's self-understanding and self-assertion. The novel intermingles fiction and history in a narrative that combines complex psychological analysis, virtuoso stylistic parody and vivid evocation of atmosphere and milieu. Michael Beddow analyses the structure of the plot and explores the significance of its chief historical, theological, psychological and musical themes. He considers Mann's understanding and modification of the Faust tradition, his thematic and formal indebtedness to Nietzsche and his interest in Adorno's neo-Marxism. The study concludes with an account of the work's generally hostile reception in defeated Germany.

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"As a recent addition to the concise and yet insightful series, Landmarks of World Literature, Beddow's study of Doktor Faustus provides readers not only with a perceptive and scholarly interpretation of the novel but also with supplementary information regarding Thomas Mann's life and work..." Germanic Notes and Reviews

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current

Acknowledgements
Chronological table of Thomas Mann+s life
Table of Adrian Leverknhn+s life and works
Note on editions
Antecedents
An artist+s life
Matters theological
Germans
Reception
Further reading
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