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1 author picked Doctor Faustus as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If I were allowed to have only one novel about German culture and the coming of the Nazis, this would be it. And, if I were allowed only one novel about the price paid by those who create great art, this would also be it.
I have never read a better fictional account of what it means to make music, and there is something truly thrilling (but also quite chilling) about the story of the composer Adrian Leverkuhn’s Faustian pact with the devil.
I was also captivated by the way that Thomas Mann has his narrator tell this story, from…
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