Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann author John E Woods translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Publishing:19th Mar '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 19th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
‘This man is mad. Of that there can no longer be any doubt, and it is pitiable that no one representing psychiatric science is part of our circle.’
Germany, May 1943: a middle-aged scholar retires to his study to reflect on the life and untimely death of his friend, a once-brilliant composer. How his friend, consumed by over-reaching ambition, entered into a pact with the Devil. How he enjoyed twenty-four years of musical genius and extraordinary creative achievement. And how, inevitably and tragically, the Devil returned to demand satisfaction.
A reworking of the classic Faust legend, Doctor Faustus is one of the great novels of the twentieth century: a powerful allegory of the rise of the Nazism in Germany and a meditation on madness, ambition and the dangerous attractions of nihilism.
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 *
Arguably the great German novel * New York Times *
Perhaps not since Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus has a novelist conveyed so tangibly and exaltedly the mechanism and the aesthetic effect in musical performance * New York Times *
ISBN: 9780241785416
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
Weight: 500g
544 pages