7/6/2023 0 Comments Doctor faustus by thomas mannIn his artistic image is much more from Goethe’s Faust than from any of the real musicians. The ingenious composer Adrian Leverkühn is a fictional hero. Narrating the events at the beginning of the 20th century, he periodically returns the reader to the present, drawing a concrete parallel between the life story of a private individual and the whole country. Serenus Zeitblom, writes a biography of Adrian Leverkühn during the fall of German cities under the onslaught of Russian troops. The storyteller is a friend of the main character, Ph.D. Published in 1947, the novel was an artistic denial of the anti-human ideal that Germany set for itself in the 1930s and 1940s. The first pages of the work were written in 1943, when the truth about the collapse of a new national idea degenerated into fascism became apparent to everyone, even Germans. The novel “Doctor Faustus” was created by Thomas Mann in difficult times.
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