Doctor Faustus

About this book

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

  • appreciation
  • bibliography
  • composers
  • continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • criticism and interpretation
  • entstehung des doktor faustus (mann, thomas)
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • fiction, political
  • german fiction
  • german language materials
  • german literature
  • germany, fiction
  • history
  • political fiction