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Doctor Faustus

Name: Doctor Faustus
Author: Thomas Mann

Thomas MannOriginal title Doktor Faustus, Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde (German, 1947)

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 .

“This music of yours. A manifestation of the highest energy — not at all abstract, but without an object, energy in a void, in pure ether — where else in the universe does such a thing appear? We Germans have taken over from philosophy the expression ‘in itself,’ we use it every day without much idea of the metaphysical. But here you have it, such music is energy itself, yet not as idea, rather in its actuality. I call your attention to the fact that is almost the definition of God. Imitatio Dei — I am surprised it is not forbidden.”

Thomas Mann book Doctor Faustus

Source: Doctor Faustus (1947), Ch. 9

“Why does almost everything seem to me like its own parody? Why must I think that almost all, no, all the methods and conventions of art today are good for parody only?”

Thomas Mann book Doctor Faustus

Source: Doctor Faustus (1947), Ch. 15

“Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.”

Thomas Mann book Doctor Faustus

Source: Doctor Faustus

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