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Can I read Doctor Faustus on EtoBox?
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Doctor Faustus about?
This novel, which has as its narrative frame work a modern version of the Faust legend, is the entire life-story of a great creative musician -Adrian Lcvcrkiihn ( 1885-1940). It is told by his lifelong friend Scrcnus Zcitblom, Ph.D. In range, depth, variety, and relevance to modern life, it is entirely worthy of the author of Tl1c 1\Iagic 1\Iountain. A theological student turned composer, Levcrkiihn symbolically enters into a pact with the DeYil (who is represented in part by an exhilarating but wasting disease). He sells his soul and body in return for twenty four years of musical genius. His life during the heightened period of the pact touches on almost every important aspect of present-day experience, artistic, religions; sexual, political, and psychological. Scarcely secondary in interest to Leverkiihn himself is the narrator, Zeitblom, a scrupulous, learned, scholarly, shocked man who tells much against his will, almost by inadvertence. Around these two the novel is'inhabited by a rich variety of human beings. It is given pro fundity and perspective by stores of wisdom, lore, psychological insight, technical discus sion, musical analysis. Through Mann's sovereign handling of
Who reads Doctor Faustus?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Thomas Mann
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (47 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14