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En los veinticuatro artículos (más dos poemas), escritos entre 1930 y 1949, que recoge la presente antología ?obra de Dominique Miermont? puede rastrearse uno de los pensamientos más lúcidos del siglo XX. El rigor intelectual y la extrema sensibilidad de Klaus Mann ?siempre oscilante entre el deseo de vivir y la tentación de morir, entre la esperanza y la desesperación?, le convirtieron en un gran analista de su tiempo, en figura clave de la intelectualidad antifascista y, en definitiva, en referente ineludible para el conocimiento de los avatares sufridos por la cultura europea en la mayor crisis de su historia.

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A searing indictment of evil in Hitler's Germany. Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he willingly renounces his Communist past and deserts his wife and mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in Faust proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann Göring, it wins Hofgen an appointment as head of the State Theatre. The rewards - the respect of the public, a castle - like villa, a uplace in Berlin's highest circles - are beyond his wildest dreams. But the moral consequences of his betrayals begin to haunt him, turning his dreamworld into a nightmare.

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