A Reader's Guide to Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus - Couverture rigide

Boes, Professor Tobias

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1640141804 ISBN 13 : 9781640141803

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2025

Synopsis

Provides the English-speaking reader with the tools needed to appreciate Thomas Mann's most ambitious novel, one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century, now timely once again.

In 1938, the great German author and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann emigrated to the United States. There, he became a figurehead for the intellectual opposition to Nazism, giving more than 150 public lectures and recording more than fifty anti-Nazi radio addresses that the BBC broadcast into Germany. His political activities also left a profound mark on his fiction, most importantly on the 1947 novel Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend. Ostensibly the biography of a fictional modern composer, Doctor Faustus also serves as a post-mortem of Nazism and a reckoning with five centuries of cultural history that led to dazzling heights but failed to prevent Germany's ultimate fall.

Doctor Faustus is an astonishingly complex novel, both because of the range of its intellectual references and because of its stylistic inventiveness, which has provoked comparisons with Joyce. And yet, at a time when democracy around the world once again seems in retreat and the forces of irrationalism are in advance, it is also an extremely timely book. This guide will equip English-speaking readers with all the tools necessary to appreciate one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.

On publication this book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

TOBIAS BOES is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame, IN.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1640141804
• ISBN 13: 9781640141803
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible