Title: Doctor Faustus
First published: 1947
Description: A new translation of a 1948 novel by a German writer based on the Faust legend. The protagonist is Adrian Leverkuhn, a musical genius who trades his body and soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of triumph as the world's greatest composer.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Composers, German language materials, Entstehung des Doktor Faustus (Mann, Thomas), Political fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Germany, fiction, Fiction, political, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, German literature, German fiction, Appreciation, Criticism and interpretation, Bibliography
Places: Germany
People: Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
Time periods: 20th century, 1789-1900