{"product_id":"doctor-faustus-the-life-of-the-german-composer-adrian-leverkuhn-as-told-by-a-friend","title":"Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDoctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eThomas Mann\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780375701160\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1999\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eF First Edition Thus\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e544\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. 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. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul--and the ability to love his fellow man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeverkühn'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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend | Thomas Mann | Paperback | 9780375701160 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks R 1787126","offer_id":67766034399384,"sku":"1787126","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71bav5wM9XL.jpg?v=1792530231","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/doctor-faustus-the-life-of-the-german-composer-adrian-leverkuhn-as-told-by-a-friend","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}