Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told By a Friend (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 365)
Language: English
Published by The Modern Library, 1966
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
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Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 26.99
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1966 first thus, Toledano 365.1, binding/jacket style 11l, blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket lightly toned, ink garage sale price on front endpaper. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked. vi, 510, [10] pp. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. "A modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkuhn, 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. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul - and the ability to love his fellow man. Leverkuhn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius - both national and individual - and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told By a Friend (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 365)
- Author
- Mann, Thomas; Lowe-Porter, H.T.
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Publication year
- 1966
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Item weight
- 17 ounces
- Dimensions
- 7x5x1
Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
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