Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann Genre
The sources and structure of the novel translated by krishna winston university of chicago press.
Doctor faustus thomas mann genre. The 1930s and 1940s. A study of thomas. Yet thomas mann had already done the same a dozen years earlier with his angst ridden novel doctor faustus pub lished in 1947 and actually begun in 1943 two years before the end of world war ii and when grass was still wearing a nazi uniform. It is a reworking of the faust legend in the form of a biography of a fictional 20th century composer and is interwoven with an exploration of how and why germany chose to ally itself with dark forces in its embrace of fascism.
Mann s protagonist the composer adrian leverkühn is the flower of german culture a brilliant isolated overreaching figure his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. Thomas mann s doctor faustus.