{"product_id":"doctor-faustus-introduction-by-t-j-reed-hardcover","title":"Doctor Faustus: Introduction by T. J. Reed - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Mann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eH. T. Lowe-Porter\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eT. J. Reed\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Mann wrote his last great novel, \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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 Leverk hn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A scathing allegory of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism, \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by T. J. Reed; Translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is about Adrian Leverkuhn, a former theological student who has become a composer, who enters symbolically into a pact with the devil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, \u003ci\u003eBuddenbrooks\u003c\/i\u003e, was published. In 1924 \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e (first published in the United States in 1948). Thomas Mann died in 1955.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 580\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.21 x 8.18 x 5.21 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44303441789030,"sku":"9780679409960","price":38.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/ZU9MVzBEemNmTTliaWt4NCtOQ21EUT09.webp?v=1767542121","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/doctor-faustus-introduction-by-t-j-reed-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}