" John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by
masterpiece." --The New Yorker
" Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by
John E. Woods." --The New Republic
Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered
into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the
Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist,
the composer Adrian Leverku hn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant,
isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by
art at the very