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Doctor Faustus The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend

Paperback (28 Oct 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

To unlock his full creative potential, Adrian Leverkühn makes a lethal pact with nature and intentionally contracts syphilis.

A brilliant young composer, Adrian believes that the disease-induced madness will fuel his genius. But while his music reaches new heights, his mind and morality begin to unravel. Mann's interpretation of the Faustian legend is a story of madness and sanity, genius and corruption, intellectual attainment and Germany's moral fall.

'Arguably the great German novel' New York Times



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Book information

ISBN: 9780749386573
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 833.912
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Sales rank: 7289
Number of pages: 510
Weight: 534g
Height: 197mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 32mm