Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
4.09
· 36 ratings · 544 pages · Published: 1947
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 its 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.
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