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"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." --The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." --The New Republic Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and... Read Full Overview

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." --The New Yorker

Thomas Mann wrote his last great novel, Doctor Faustus , during his exile from Nazi Germany. Although he already had a long string of masterpieces to his name, in retrospect this seems to be the novel he was born to write. A modern reworking of the Faust legend in which a twentieth-century... Read Full Overview

Una reinterpretaci?n del gran mito inmortalizado por Goethe. Un reflejo de la sociedad moderna. La ?ltima gran novela de Thomas Mann es una reinterpretaci?n del mito de Fausto. Su protagonista, Adrian Leverk?hn, es un compositor brillante, as? como un hombre solitario y exigente... Read Full Overview

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." --The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." --The New Republic Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and... Read Full Overview

"Doktor Faustus" relata la historia del compositor alem?n Adrian Leverk?hn, que inevitablemente se desdobla en dos planos. Por un lado es la novela de aprendizaje de un estudiante de m?sica zarandeado por las complejidades y avatares de que fue v?ctima la ALemania del siglo XX,... Read Full Overview

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." --The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." --The New Republic Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and... Read Full Overview