Adrian explains his failures with a deal with the Devil, which took place due to the initial corruption of his soul. The incredible individualism inherent in Adrian Leverkühn makes it inaccessible to simple human feelings, depriving a woman at the beginning of love, then a friend and, at the end of her life, her son named Nepomuk’s nephew. The dominant character trait of the protagonist – pride is the basis of his insane genius, and his spiritual decline. The disharmony present in the symphonies of “Doctor Faustus” by the end of his life turns into a real “Lament”, which is the antipode of Beethoven’s ninth symphony and an expression of the internal decay of the composer’s personality. Musical compositions created by Adrian Leverkühn are not a continuation, but a contrast of classical works, which affirm the creative basis of creativity. Separate reminiscence features are present in the character, but rather at the level of musical technique (parallel in the XXII chapter with Thomas Mann’s contemporary – composer and theoretician Arnold Schoenberg) than the character or characteristics of life. In his artistic image is much more from Goethe’s Faust than from any of the real musicians. The ingenious composer Adrian Leverkühn is a fictional hero. Narrating the events at the beginning of the 20th century, he periodically returns the reader to the present, drawing a concrete parallel between the life story of a private individual and the whole country. Serenus Zeitblom, writes a biography of Adrian Leverkühn during the fall of German cities under the onslaught of Russian troops. The storyteller is a friend of the main character, Ph.D. Published in 1947, the novel was an artistic denial of the anti-human ideal that Germany set for itself in the 1930s and 1940s. The first pages of the work were written in 1943, when the truth about the collapse of a new national idea degenerated into fascism became apparent to everyone, even Germans.
The novel “Doctor Faustus” was created by Thomas Mann in difficult times.
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