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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.
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Prestige, grave, contemplative and bleak.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Thomas Mann
- First published
- 1947
- Pages
- 545
- Publisher
- Fischer Taschenbuch, Modern Library, Vintage
- Editions
- 67
- Language
- German, Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9785170224944
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Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, 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. 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, the anti-fascist Mann fled to Switzerland. When World
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