Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann
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Release Date: 28/10/1996
A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. To unlock his full creative potential, Adrian Leverkühn makes a lethal pact with nature and intentionally contracts syphilis.
Adrian Leverkühn is a young man destined for success.
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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