Written between 1943 and 1947, Doctor Faustus expresses its author's shock and grief about the political, cultural, and moral corruption of his native Germany under the impact of a seemingly unforeseeable resurgence of wholesale barbarism. As in previous novels, Mann is primarily interested in the ideological changes that precede and motivate social action. The artist, once again, is perceived as the conscious and often unconscionable.....
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