![]() ![]() ![]() The story is enriched with numerous references to Mann's own biography as well as the socio-political conditions in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. The book tells the story of the German composer Adrian Leverkühn, born in 1885, who enters into a pact with the devil to obtain musical genius in exchange for renouncing the warmth of love. With his novel, which he had worked on in his California exile since 1943, Mann followed up his Joseph tetralogy with his long-held intention of writing his own rendition of the Faust material. Thomas Mann’s great late-career work Doktor Faustus was published in German in 1947 by the émigré publishing house Bermann-Fischer in Stockholm. Childhood and adolescence in Munich.Living conditions and everyday life.Working and being productive in exile. ![]()
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