Baltipink reviewed Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
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2 stars
I found it tedious. Mann is overrated if you ask me.
523 pages
English language
Published Sept. 6, 1992 by Knopf, Distributed by Random House.
Doctor Faustus (1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-40996-0
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4 stars
(7 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.