Baltipink reviewed Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
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2 stars
I found it tedious. Mann is overrated if you ask me.
669 pages
English language
Published Sept. 6, 1992 by The Modern Library.
Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (1992, The Modern Library)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-60042-8
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4 stars
(6 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.