Description
Thomas Mann's profound, dense, and formally extraordinary novel—using the Faustian myth to examine the corruption of the German cultural soul through the story of a composer who makes a pact with the devil in exchange for creative genius—is one of the most ambitious and most morally serious works of fiction produced in the twentieth century. Written with Mann's incomparable combination of intellectual ambition and novelistic technique, this is a novel that demands everything from its reader and gives even more in return. Essential reading for every serious student of literature and the most important novel about artistic genius in the Western tradition.
