The famous book reviewer Orville Prescott begins his review of “Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, Told by a Friend,” with the following sentence: “Strange indeed are ...

Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus is a work of exile, written in the US (1943-47), a bold and sometimes terrifying retelling of the Faust legend through the life of a composer, Adrian Leverkuhn. When I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Igor Levit plays piano for an audience that includes critic Alex Ross, in the black mask, and Frido Mann, Thomas Mann's grandson, ...

DOCTOR FAUSTUS (510 pp.)—Thomas Mann—Knopf ($3.50). In a poll of the world’s literary critics, Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann would probably win the nomination as the greatest living novelist. He would ...

The narrator of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) is relating his story against the clock, as the German homeland finds itself pulverized and encircled in the spring of 1945. He punctuates almost ...