D octor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend is written in the form of a biography and attention naturally centers around Adrian Leverkuhn's life. Only the decadence of bourgeois circles in Munich temporarily assumes center stage, with the composer barely more than an acquaintance to some of the melodramatic histrionics which Mann drew with merciless accuracy from his long years of residence in that city.
Next to the hero, the most interesting figure is his fictional biographer Serenus Zeitblom, the kindhearted childhood.....
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