They’re so vivid that you think they exist – you can almost hear them.” Read more. There’s an extraordinary sense of plausibility in how Mann described these fictional compositions of Leverkühn. What sets this novel aside from so many others that have been attempted on the subject of music is the authenticity. He wasn’t someone to admire or emulate and he’s quite frightening, but I had the sense of this character, this artistic figure, going absolutely against the grain and pursuing something so individual, so pure, that it leads him to destruction in the end. Doctor Faustus is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, begun in 1943 and published in 1947 as Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde ('Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, Told by a Friend'). But I remember at the time being thrilled by Leverkühn. If you read the book in a very obvious or vulgar way, his madness seems to be symbolic of the madness of Germany in the 20th century. Manns protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkhn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a. I remember finishing the book, standing up in my bedroom at home at 2am, literally unable to sit down it had such an electrifying effect on me…Mann depicts his composer – the hero, or antihero if you prefer – Adrian Leverkühn as a man who’s losing his mind.
It was one of the most intense reading experiences of my life. “I read Doctor Faustus when I was around 18 and something about the book just overwhelmed me. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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