Baltipink reviewed Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
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2 stars
I found it tedious. Mann is overrated if you ask me.
510 pages
English language
Published Sept. 6, 1992 by Vintage International.
Doctor Faustus
the life of the German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, as told by a friend
by Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (1992, Vintage International)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-73905-0
- OCLC Number:
- 24911124
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4 stars
(4 reviews)
A new translation of a 1948 novel by a German writer based on the Faust legend. The protagonist is Adrian Leverkuhn, a musical genius who trades his body and soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of triumph as the world's greatest composer.
Subjects
- Germany -- History -- 1789-1900 -- Fiction.
- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.