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Book SynopsisA masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Adrian Leverkühn is a young man destined for success.
Trade ReviewArguably
the great German novel * New York Times *
Perhaps not since Thomas Mann's
Doctor Faustus has 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 *