Doctor Faustus [Thomas Mann]

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Doctor Faustus

Thomas Mann

Borzoi Book, NY. 1948. First Book of the Month Club edition. The dust jacket has some wear; rips, tears,chipping. The book itself is beautiful. A very good copy of this exceedingly rare edition.

From the publisher:

"Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul—and the ability to love his fellow man."

A truly affecting book; I devoured it the first time I read it...there's something so brilliant in it's assessment of German culture. This is a very early book club edition of this work. A very snazzy gift for sure.