by Thomas Mann · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432222078
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«Doktor Faustus» is the novel by German writer Thomas Mann, published by Seix Barral in a hardcover edition (586 pages, in Spanish).
A novel in the form of a biography that follows composer Adrian Leverkühn and his pact with the devil in exchange for absolute musical genius. Thomas Mann turns the Faust legend into a reflection on art, madness, and the decline of German culture during the first half of the twentieth century.
Translation from German by Eugenio Xammar. Volume belonging to the collection «Obras maestras de la literatura contemporánea», number 46. The novel was originally published in 1947.
For readers interested in great twentieth-century European fiction and in the reworking of the Faust myth from German literature.
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modern versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
