In Doktor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. In this study, Michael Beddow analyzes the chief historical, theological, psychological and musical themes of this complex work, and considers Mann's indebtedness to the Faust tradition, Nietzsche, and neo-Marxism. He concludes with an account of the novel's generally hostile reception in defeated Germany. The book also includes a chronological table and a guide to further reading.
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"As a recent addition to the concise and yet insightful series, Landmarks of World Literature, Beddow's study of Doktor Faustus provides readers not only with a perceptive and scholarly interpretation of the novel but also with supplementary information regarding Thomas Mann's life and work..." Germanic Notes and Reviews
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The chief historical, theological, psychological and musical themes of Mann's last major novel are analyzed in relationship to his attempt to interpret and judge Germany's post-reformation role in European culture and history within the Faustian tradition.
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Thomas Mann was born into a family of grain merchants in the Baltic seaport of Lubeck in 1875, four years after the proclamation of the German Empire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann on 6 pages
- Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man by Thomas Mann on 5 pages
- Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann on 4 pages
- The Decline of the West (Abridged) by Oswald Spengler in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 13
- Royal Highness by Thomas Mann in Front Matter, and page 2
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- Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment. by Berthold Hoeckner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- What Evil Means to Us by C. Fred Alford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Solitude and Its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction by Edward Engelberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Racine: Phèdre (Landmarks of World Literature) by Edward D. James in Front Matter
- Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan (Landmarks of World Literature) by Mark Chinca in Front Matter
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