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Doctor Faustus Paperback – 28 Oct. 1996

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A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Adrian Leverkühn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilliant, but he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness, Adrian makes his pact with nature. Mann's interpretation of the Faustian legend is a story of madness and sanity, genius and corruption, intellectual attainment and Germany's moral fall.

'Arguably the great German novel' New York Times

THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY H. T. LOWE-PORTER

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0749386576
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978-0749386573
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Vintage Classics
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28 Oct. 1996
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12.9 x 3.2 x 19.8 cm
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752 pages
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Arguably the great German novel ― New York Times

Perhaps not since Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustushas a novelist conveyed so tangibly and exaltedly the mechanism and the aesthetic effect in musical performance ― New York Times

The real masterpiece ― New York Times

Mann struggled with his own conflicted feelings about Germany and German culture, and in his magisterial Doctor Faustus found the perfect metaphor for what his country had done; it had bargained with the devil, and lost. ― The Herald

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Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His first major novel, Buddenbrooks, had sold over a million copies in Germany alone before it was banned and burned by Hitler.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Classics (28 Oct. 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 752 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0749386576
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0749386573
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 3.2 x 19.8 cm

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Thomas Mann
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Paul Thomas Mann (German: [paʊ̯l toːmas man]; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, returning to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur, literature written in German by those who opposed or fled the Hitler regime.
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Anne De Bourg

One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2014

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Thomas Mann is the best and most important novelist of the twentieth century, and "Dr Faustus' is one of his two greatest novels, the other being "The Magic Mountain". No one understood as well as he what the sickness of Germany was that drove it into World War I and then into Nazism and World War II as well as he did. And few novelists have been able to tell a story that conveys the writer's understanding as well as he could and did. In addition the stories themselves are gripping, and so memorable no reader of them is ever likely to forget them. If you enjoyed the film of "Death in Venice" you really should read "Dr Faustus". The written story of "Death in Venice" was about the last days of a writer, not a musician. The film brilliantly combined the two works into one, making the protagonist a musician, losing nothing of Thomas Mann's penetrating vision, though by no means condensing the "Dr Faustus" story into the shorter narrative. Only by reading both can the achievement of that excellent film be understood, and, more importantly, the range and depth of the two novels be fully appreciated. To those who have not read Thomas Mann at all, my message is that riches await you in all his works, and enlightenment, and profound pleasure.

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I ordered a book... it came

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2019

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I mean, what else do you want? It arrived :-)

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kentian

Excellent,but

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2020

This is one of my desert island books, but I think I prefer the older translation by Helen Lowe- Porter. I’m not a fluent German speaker to judge one better than the the other, but the peculiar atmosphere that so drew me into the book years ago seems slightly diluted in this new translation.

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Satisfied

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2018

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Fast delivery good quality

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Excellent

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Superb; fast, efficient, excellent.Superb

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John G

Super small text size!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 December 2021

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I’m only on page 16 and am really struggling with the super small font size. Everyman editions are usually a pleasure to read, well bound with crisp legible type on quality paper. But this for me is like reading the bottom line on the optician’s text board!
I would happily have paid more for larger text spread over more pages - please note in the Everyman design/production department!

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joezaun@t-online.de

interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2001

This book is one of the most important books Thomas Mann wrote. Compared to Goethe's Faust you will find many differences which lie mainly in the character of the protagonist Adrian Leverkühn (=Faust) and the time the story takes place (1890-1944).
Leverkühn represents the "German charakter" as Mann once explained it. Many characters in the book stand for different points of views (for instance Serenus Zeitblom as a representer of humanism) and thereby reveal the political and cultural developpment of Germany during the period already given.
The book's function is to deal with the fact that when Hitler became chancelor in Germany an old culture was lost. It describes on a very very interesting way how Hitler could happen and starts therefore not in 1933 but in 1890.
In this book Mann gives many fascinating ideas about religion and their function, philosophy, art and human nature. But it is a book which cannot be read easily. The discussions are complicated and many times hardly understandable for people without a deeper knowledge about music and their history, German politics and culture.

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Linda

Beautiful Book

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A beautiful Everyman's Library Edition. Came with a lovely cover and top quality.

Paula M.

A wonderful masterpiece

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An excellent translation of this absolute gem of literature. T. Mann's heyday.

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Paul Dugdale

Not the Woods translation!

Reviewed in Australia on 22 May 2021

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Don't be fooled! Despite what it says in the 'editors reviews' section of the kindle store page for this book, this is the old (bad) 1940s translation, NOT the (feted) Woods translation. Don't buy it.

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Veronika Reichert

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Reviewed in Canada on 31 December 2013

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This book is like no other I have encountered. However I must supply the warning that this book is certainly not for everyone.
For me, though, Doctor Faustus is a perfect fit.
It is more like reading speculative philosophy than a story, but by the fifth chapter I was quite wrapped up in the narrative as well. It is a true work of art. Worth the committment.

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