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Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

Autor: Thomas Mann

Número de Páginas: 757

Una reinterpretación del gran mito inmortalizado por Goethe. Un reflejo de la sociedad moderna. La última gran novela de Thomas Mann es una reinterpretación del mito de Fausto. Su protagonista, Adrian Leverkühn, es un compositor brillante, así como un hombre solitario y exigente. Su obra, una música nueva, rompedora, radical y de ritmo acelerado, parece estaral filo de lo imposible. A pesar del éxito, Adrian aspira a más hasta el punto de vender su alma y renunciar a cualquier posibilidad de amar. Doctor Faustus, una de las obras más profundas del autor, reflexionaacerca de la figura del genio, al mismo tiempo que propone el mito de fausto como un reflejo de la realidad de su tiempo. Reseña: «Novela que consideraba la más personal, la más confesional, lamás íntima de las suyas, aquella en la que al fin reveló,irónica, lúcidamente, su secreto. Y ese secreto es,quizá, el exceso de lucidez.» Eugenio Trías

Doktor Faustus

Doktor Faustus

Autor: Thomas Mann

Número de Páginas: 720

Nueva encarnación del mito fáustico, esta «novela total» trasciende el horizonte ya de por sí vasto y apasionante de las especulaciones estéticas, para plantearse como una parábola de las fuerzas irracionales que mueven a pueblos enteros.

Doktor Faustus / Doctor Faustus

Doktor Faustus / Doctor Faustus

Autor: Thomas Mann

Número de Páginas: 0

Una reinterpretación del gran mito inmortalizado por Goethe. Un reflejo de la sociedad moderna. La última gran novela de Thomas Mann es una reinterpretación del mito de Fausto. Su protagonista, Adrian Leverkühn, es un compositor brillante, así como un hombre solitario y exigente. Su obra, una música nueva, rompedora, radical y de ritmo acelerado, parece estar al filo de lo imposible. A pesar del éxito, Adrian aspira a más hasta el punto de vender su alma y renunciar a cualquier posibilidad de amar. Doctor Faustus, una de las obras más profundas del autor, reflexiona acerca de la figura del genio, al mismo tiempo que propone el mito de fausto como un reflejo de la realidad de su tiempo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The new translation, by the masterly John E. Woods, of one of Thomas Mann's most famous and important novels: his modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which twentieth-century Germany sells its soul to the devil. Mann's protagonist, Adrian Leverkühn, is one of the most significant characters in the literature of our era, for it is in him that Mann centers the tragedy of Germany's seduction by evil. This modern Faust is a great artist: Leverkühn is a musical genius...

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

Autor: Thomas Mann

Número de Páginas: 546

"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 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. Leverkühn'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.

Doktor Faustus: Kommentar

Doktor Faustus: Kommentar

Autor: Thomas Mann , Ruprecht Wimmer

Número de Páginas: 1280

A reworking of the Faust legend in which a fictional German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, makes a pact with Mephistopheles for early fame. After confessing his pact, Leverkühn collapses, dying ten years later, bedridden and helpless. The composer's life parallels the rise and fall of Nazism.

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Nietzsche et le Doktor Faustus de Thomas Mann

Autor: Maurice Colleville , Friedrich Nietzsche

Número de Páginas: 12
Changing Perceptions of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus

Changing Perceptions of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus

Autor: John F. Fetzer

Número de Páginas: 226

Ever since its appearance in 1947, Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus has generated heated reactions among critics. Whereas initial ideological differences stemming from the Cold War and the division of Germany have abated following the reunification of 1990, diverse opinions and controversies persist about Mann's daring treatment of the Faust theme. These include such topics as the political stance of the author and the historical dimensions of the novel; the biographical and autobiographical and backgrounds of the workespecially in light of the subsequent publication of Mann's diaries and private notebooks; the writer's sexual and psychological proclivities; the thorny issues of montage, collage, and intertextuality; musical concerns such as the extent to which the novel's protagonist appropriates as his own Arnold Schonberg's twelve-tone system of composition or the role of Mann's fellow exile and mentor, Theodor W. Adorno, in indoctrinating his "pupil" into avant-garde musical techniques; the degree to which the novel exhibits structural features of the music on which the narrative focuses; and the function of certain mythic prototypes for this modern parody in fashioning the...

The Modern Revival of Gnosticism and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus

The Modern Revival of Gnosticism and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus

Autor: Kirsten J. Grimstad

Número de Páginas: 316

This study explores the reappearance of Gnostic themes across the landscape of European literature and thought and in major works by Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus

Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus

Autor: Michael Beddow

Número de Páginas: 108

In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. Through the figures of the solitary avant-garde composer, Adrian Leverkühn, and his often bemused biographer Serenus Zeitblom, Mann explores Germany's self-understanding and self-assertion. The novel intermingles fiction and history in a narrative that combines complex psychological analysis, virtuoso stylistic parody and vivid evocation of atmosphere and milieu. Michael Beddow analyses the structure of the plot and explores the significance of its chief historical, theological, psychological and musical themes. He considers Mann's understanding and modification of the Faust tradition, his thematic and formal indebtedness to Nietzsche and his interest in Adorno's neo-Marxism. The study concludes with an account of the work's generally hostile reception in defeated Germany.

A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann

A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann

Autor: Herbert Lehnert , Eva Wessell

Número de Páginas: 364

Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann, this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role as family-father was both refuge and façade; his love of Germany was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism, and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides sixteen essays by American and European specialists....

Mann: Doctor Faustus

Mann: Doctor Faustus

Autor: Michael Beddow

Número de Páginas: 136

In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. Through the figures of the solitary avant-garde composer, Adrian Leverkühn, and his often bemused biographer Serenus Zeitblom, Mann explores Germany's self-understanding and self-assertion. The novel intermingles fiction and history in a narrative that combines complex psychological analysis, virtuoso stylistic parody and vivid evocation of atmosphere and milieu. Michael Beddow analyses the structure of the plot and explores the significance of its chief historical, theological, psychological and musical themes. He considers Mann's understanding and modification of the Faust tradition, his thematic and formal indebtedness to Nietzsche and his interest in Adorno's neo-Marxism. The study concludes with an account of the work's generally hostile reception in defeated Germany.

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

Autor: Thomas Mann

Número de Páginas: 754

This is the story of German composer, Adrian Leverkuhn. Zeitblom, the narrator, tells his friend's story against the backdrop of WW2, which acts as counterpoint to Mann's vast theme, the discord between genius and sanity

Overturning Dr. Faustus

Overturning Dr. Faustus

Autor: Frances Lee

Número de Páginas: 322

Lee establishes what is actually happening in the novel in its historical setting, showing Mann's view of how the acceptance of fascism occurred and the determining role he attributed to the academic community in bringing about the disaster. Her book will be of interest to both amateur and professional students of Mann, particularly because it points to rich new directions for study."--BOOK JACKET.

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Doctor Faustus

Autor: Thomas Mann , Eugenio Xammar

Número de Páginas: 0

La última gran novela de Thomas Mann es una reinterpretación del mito de Fausto. Su protagonista, Adrian Leverkühn, es un compositor brillante, así como un hombre solitario y exigente. Su obra, una música nueva, rompedora, radical y de ritmo acelerado, parece estar al filo de lo imposible. A pesar del éxito, Adrian aspira a más hasta el punto de vender su alma y renunciar a cualquier posibilidad de amar. Doctor Faustus, una de las obras más profundas del autor, reflexiona acerca de la figura del genio, al mismo tiempo que propone el mito de fausto como un reflejo de la realidad de su tiempo. Tomado de: https://bit.ly/3aDOPYx.

Volume 12, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art

Volume 12, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art

Autor: Jon Stewart

Número de Páginas: 269

While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists worldwide who have been attracted to his creative mixing of genres, his complex use of pseudonyms, his rhetoric and literary style, and his rich images, parables, and allegories. The goal of the present volume is to document this influence in different language groups and traditions. Tome I explores Kierkegaard’s influence on literature and art in the Germanophone world. He was an important source of inspiration for German writers such as Theodor Fontane, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Alfred Andersch, and Martin Walser. Kierkegaard’s influence was particularly strong in Austria during the generation of modernist authors such as Rudolf Kassner, Karl Kraus, Robert Musil, and Hermann Broch. Due presumably in part to the German translations of Kierkegaard in the Austrian cultural journal Der Brenner, Kierkegaard continued to be used by later figures such as the novelist and playwright, Thomas Bernhard. His thought was also appropriated in Switzerland through the works of Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The famous ...

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

Autor: T. J. Reed

Número de Páginas: 493

T.J. Reed's study has long established itself as the standard work in English on Thomas mann, and offers as comprehensive a view of Mann's fiction and thought as is available in any language. It is based on a coherent close reading of Mann's oeuvre, literary and political, and also on manuscripts and sources, and was part of the first phase of literary scholarship that opened up the resources of the Zurich Thomas Mann Archive. Further documents that have appeared since then - Mann's diaries, notebooks, and other correspondences - have not fundamentally altered the individual interpretations or the overall picture the study offers, and in some respects have emphatically confirmed them. A further chapter added to this edition covers the new documentation, gives a vigorous account of the main curents in Mann scholarship and criticism over the last two decades suggesting how we should now see the writer, the man, and the political figure, and above all the complex relationship between the three.

Art and Its Uses in Thomas Mann's Felix Krull

Art and Its Uses in Thomas Mann's Felix Krull

Autor: Ernest Schonfield

Número de Páginas: 214

Thomas Mann's Felix Krull, written between 1910-13 and continued (though never completed) in 1951-54, uses contemporary accounts of these figures as a starting-point from which to explore the aesthetics of society. The early Krull marks an important stage in Mann's development in a number of respects.In writing it, Mann acquired a more flexible conception of identity and a new understanding of the relation between artist and public. Krull also signals a deeper engagement with Goethe and a shift in Mann's work towards a more open treatment of sexuality. The novel presents art as being central to the development of the individual and to social interaction. While Krull is nominally a confidence man, he is more of a performance artist, a purveyor of beauty who relies upon the complicity of his audience. The later Krull takes up where Mann left off and continues the justification of art as an essential human activity. This study draws upon unpublished material in order to provide a comprehensive reading of Felix Krull. It examines the novel within the context of Mann's work as a whole, and, in doing so, it seeks to demonstrate the remarkable continuity of Mann's creative achievement.

Politics, Death, and the Devil

Politics, Death, and the Devil

Autor: Harvey Goldman

Número de Páginas: 400

This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received Max Weber and Thomas Mann continues his rich exploration of the political and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of these two authors. Combining social and political thought, intellectual history, and literary interpretation, Goldman examines in particular Weber's "Science as a Vocation" and "Politics as a Vocation" and Mann's The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus. Goldman deals with the ways in which Weber and Mann sought an antidote to personal and cultural weakness through "practices" for generating strength, mastery, and power, drawing primarily on ascetic traditions at a time when the vitality of other German traditions was disappearing. Power and mastery concerned both Weber and Mann, especially as they tried to resolve problems of politics and culture in Germany. Although their resolutions of the problems they confronted seem inadequate, they show the significance of linking social and political thought to conceptions of self and active worldly practices. Trenchant and illuminating, Goldman's book is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory, social thought, and the intellectual history of...

De la guerre juste à la paix juste

De la guerre juste à la paix juste

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 316

Cet ouvrage contribue, à partir d’études de cas empruntées au passé de la France et de l’Allemagne, à une réflexion sur les problèmes que pose la transition de la guerre à la paix. Il aborde la question : comment construire la paix ? à partir d’un angle d'attaque qui fait la part belle à la dimension confessionnelle, dont on sait l’importance - et l’ambivalence - pour la représentation des conflits comme pour la construction de la paix dans l’espace germanique et, dans une moindre mesure, dans l’histoire de la nation française. Il retrace l’évolution qu’ont connue, au fil de quatre siècles, les réflexions sur la guerre et la paix en France et en Allemagne, et il analyse les causes intérieures et extérieures de la fragilité des paix. Un accent est d’abord mis sur les traités de paix de Westphalie qui ont comblé les lacunes de 1555 et offert des garanties juridiques fondamentales. Puis les auteurs montrent comment l’inadéquation s’est creusée, au xviiie et au xixe siècle, entre les théoriciens de la paix et les chantres des conflits, l’adversaire devenant, d’hérétique ou rebelle, l’ennemi de la nation. Les divergences entre...

Sweden after Nazism

Sweden after Nazism

Autor: Johan Östling

Número de Páginas: 360

As a nominally neutral power during the Second World War, Sweden in the early postwar era has received comparatively little attention from historians. Nonetheless, as this definitive study shows, the war—and particularly the specter of Nazism—changed Swedish society profoundly. Prior to 1939, many Swedes shared an unmistakable affinity for German culture, and even after the outbreak of hostilities there remained prominent apologists for the Third Reich. After the Allied victory, however, Swedish intellectuals reframed Nazism as a discredited, distinctively German phenomenon rooted in militarism and Romanticism. Accordingly, Swedes’ self-conception underwent a dramatic reformulation. From this interplay of suppressed traditions and bright dreams for the future, postwar Sweden emerged.

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Thomas Mann's "Doktor Faustus". Progress in Music

Autor: Jo-ann Reif , Thomas Mann

Número de Páginas: 247
Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

Autor: Editor. , Thomas Mann

Número de Páginas: 0

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and musical development provides a panorama of middle-class German society in the early twentieth century.

Faust ou la mélancolie du savoir

Faust ou la mélancolie du savoir

Autor: Jean-yves Masson

Número de Páginas: 291

Variante moderne du mythe de Prométhée, reconnaissable à sa quête de savoirs et de pouvoirs interdits, le mythe de Faust apparaît comme le plus propre à décrire les enjeux de la modernité.Authentique savant ou farceur diabolique ? Dès lors que la littérature s'empare du personnage, il n'est plus nécessaire de choisir entre les deux aspects. Faust est une figure ambiguë: c'est que partout où la volonté de savoir rencontre le désir, partout où sont en jeu les limites de la condition humaine, le comique et le tragique se frôlent jusqu'à parfois se confondre.La variété des approches ici réunies — littéraire, musicale, philosophique, psychanalytique — dévoile les enjeux demeurés fondamentaux de la Renaissance à nos jours, et met en lumière la présence, dans notre imaginaire, de cette figure obsédante.Textes réunis et présentés par Jean-Yves Masson, écrivain, traducteur, professeur de Littérature Comparée à l'Université Paris X Nanterre.

The Arrow and the Lyre

The Arrow and the Lyre

Autor: Frank Donald Hirschbach

Número de Páginas: 205

When I first thought about this topic I encountered many ex pressions of surprise among my better-read friends, and a number of them asked me: "Is there really much love in Thomas Mann's works, and is it really important?" The posing of this question is the direct result of three decades of criticism which has represented Mann mainly as a serious and sober novelist, and frequently also as a prosy and prolix author who "clutters up" his works with superfluous bits of erudition. HisMagicMountain bids fair to join the list of immortal works of world literature which people bring back from their summer vacations - unread. Mann is, of course, serious and sober and very North German in most of his works, and the charge of occasional verbosity and divagation can well be substantiated. Nevertheless, Mann has, in my opinion, tried to be fundamentally a humorist throughout his life and career, not in the conventional sense of the word in which Fritz Reuter, P. G. Wodehouse or Ring Lardner qualify, but as a man who at an astonishingly early age saw through his fellow humans, analyzed and defined their basic confiicts and decided to be a mediator, a prophet of the realm of the middle. The...

Was the Real Thomas Mann an Antisemite?

Was the Real Thomas Mann an Antisemite?

Autor: Alexander Raviv

Número de Páginas: 132

Examines four novellas by Thomas Mann, into which he overtly or covertly placed Jewish characters: "The Will for Happiness", "Gladius Dei", "Tristan", and "The Blood of the Walsungs". Argues that these novellas show Mann as an antisemite. His early collaboration with the voelkisch-nationalist periodical "Das zwanzigste Jahrhundert", to which he contributed a number of essays touching on the "Jewish question", and some other details of his biography corroborate this impression.

Thomas Mann and Shakespeare

Thomas Mann and Shakespeare

Autor: Tobias Döring , Ewan Fernie

Número de Páginas: 281

Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, Thomas Mann and Shakespeare is the first book-length study to explore the always fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, connections between Shakespeare and Mann. It establishes startling resonances between the central works of these two authors, pairing, for instance, Der Zauberberg with The Tempest, Der Tod in Venedig with The Merchant of Venice, Tonio Kröger with Othello and Love's Labour's Lost with Doktor Faustus. Showing how the conjunction of Shakespeare and Mann affords new, alternative perspectives on fundamental issues such as modernity, irony, art, desire, authorship and religion, Thomas Mann and Shakespeare challenges the increasingly walled-in specialism of literary topics and periodization and demonstrates the scope for new ways of reading in literary studies.

The Doctor Faustus Dossier

The Doctor Faustus Dossier

Autor: E. Randol Schoenberg

Número de Páginas: 446

Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and culminates in the famous dispute over Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus. In the thick of the controversy was Theodor Adorno, then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the Faustus affair would make him an enemy of both families. Gathered here for the first time in English, the letters in this essential volume are complemented by diary entries, related articles, and other primary source materials, as well as an introduction by German studies scholar Adrian Daub that contextualizes the impact these two great artists had on twentieth-century thought and culture.

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