![]() ![]() How it broke away from religious and collective bounds to become a domain accessible only to the isolated individual and how, in this state of permanent self-reflection, erodes the artist’s creative powers. From a more political perspective, his demise mirrors the intoxication of the people by Fascism.”Ī novel of great complexity, Doctor Faustus is also a treatise on how art and, with it, the artist, has become autonomous. On 12 February 1949 Mann wrote to Albert Oppenheimer: “The hero of the novel, Leverkühn, is an unusually prideful, distant and gifted individual, far too clever for the arts, but who nonetheless fulfils a creative urge and with this, requires unrestraint which, in the idealised framework of the book, can be delivered only by evil. From Monday 1 February until Friday 2 April the walls of W139 will be painted with scenes, images and characters from Thomas Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus. ![]()
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