Thomas Mann's novel Doktor Faustus in the light of questions "What did the author want to tell?" and "What did the work an sich tell?"
2011
Abstract
The Doktor Faustus is considered to be a novel about a German fate represented by composer Adrian Leverkühn. A deal with a devil connects Leverkühn with a German fate.
Referring to a confrontation of the text with a reading of the author and that in the secondary literature It was demonstrated how fragile this traditional interpretation can be.