...Hans Albert Von Maier Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 DIE STELLUNG DES “DOKTOR FAUSTUS” IM GESAMTWERKE THOMAS MANNS Yon HANSALBERT MAIER Grauen umgibt uns, Grauen und Hoffnungslosigkeit, wenn wir ~chfieberhafter...

...Eva Schiffer Gunilla Bergsten. Stockholm: Svensja Bokförlaget, 1963. Pp. 308. Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Eva Schifer 415 momas Mums Doktor Faustus: Untersuckungen zu den Quellen und zur...

...Hildegarde Drexl Hannum Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 SELF-SACRIFICE IN DOKTOR FAUSTUS THOMAS MAN”S CONTRIBUTION TO THE FAUST LEGEND By HILDEGARDEDREXL HANNUM The basis...

... of transposing impressions of music into words. The result is unimpres- sive. 514 KEVIEWS Scher makes one attempt to go beyond this descriptive mode into actual interpretation. After treating a passage of Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus...

..., from Buddenbrooks to Doktor Faustus, not only in the familiar mode of ironic detachment, but in a confused intermixing of points of view, of narrative perspectives, of contradictory and self-canceling ideas. Buddenbrooks, Gray insists, is so destructively cynical at its own expense that we...

... interpretation. After treating a passage of Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus in his usual manner, Scher tries to show that Leverkuhn-Mlann’s description of the prelude to Act 3 of Wagner’s Meistersinger means more than Lever- kuhn’s mockery of Wagner’s style. He insists that Adrian’s whole career...

.... 168. M. Sagave’s study is an unusually interesting and valuable contribution. Con- fining himself to Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg, and Doktor Faustus, he attempts, with general success, to depict both the political and economic reality underlying the three novels and the ideological...

...- siver stellt sich das Verhaltnis dar, wie Thomas Mann selbst kurze Zeit nach dem Erscheinen von Dr. Maiers Abhandlung vor aller Welt in seinem Nietzsche Essay und in seinem von Nietzsche durchtrankten Roman Doktor Faustus kund gibt; so hat nicht nur die Kritik, sondern auch Thomas Manri selbst...

...: thus Mann is misquoted on pages 43 and 94. Die Entstehung des Doktor Fuustus is wrongly and quite misleadingly dated. Possibly Mann described his letter to S. Fischer as “den schonsten, den er je geschrieben”-unfortunately, Berendsohn’s book is not documented-but Mann’s recorded remark is far...

... writers, and was liberated from religion during the time of Lessing. Miss Butler deals extensively and efficiently with Goethe’s Fuwt, quite properly points up the importance of Lenau and Heine in Faustian literature, and devotes a chapter to Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus (which she calls...

... the time of Lessing. Miss Butler deals extensively and efficiently with Goethe’s Fuwt, quite properly points up the importance of Lenau and Heine in Faustian literature, and devotes a chapter to Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus (which she calls “The First Faust Reborn, 1947 I was delighted...

... 1’Uni- versitC de Strasbourg, SociCtC d’Edition, Les Belles Lettres, fascicule 124, 1954. Pp. 168. M. Sagave’s study is an unusually interesting and valuable contribution. Con- fining himself to Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg, and Doktor Faustus, he attempts, with general success...

.... (What it does not sa) inside the cover, needless to say, is that the Spanish version had been translated froni the German.) Eg.. Totenschlff, Bniitriuiol1~J~iicker,“Die Auferweckung eines ‘l‘oten.” “Der Hati- tliten-Doktor.” “Der Nachtbesuch ini I3usch.” IYE.g., Karren, Rebellion...

... dated April 22, 1917, reads: Sehr verehrter Herr Doktor! Meine Antwort hat sich urn einige Tage verzogert, da die Sachen erst abgeschrieben werden muaten. Ich schicke 12 Stucke. Zwei davon “Der neue Advokat” und “Ein...

... zum besten oder Die Mutterschule. Ein Lustspiel in 5 A. nach dem Englischen des Doktors Goldsmith. Frey bearbeitet von [ M. G.] Lambrecht. Aufgefuhrt zu Augsburg, 1785 (Augsburg, 1785). It was also included in “Neue Schauspiele fur das deutsche Theater’’ ( Augsburg, 1786). 2...

... Mann after 1933”; Leslie L. Miller, “Myth and Morality: Reflections on Thomas Mann’s Doktor Fuustus”; Gordon L. Tracy, “‘Das Gestische’ and the Poetry of Brecht”; Hermann Boeschenstein, “Observations on Otto Flake.” Daniel, George Bernard, Jr. (editor). Renuissance and Other Studies...

... expressed in the novel. Thus he states that one of Mann’s essays on Goethe-presumably the “Phantasie” is meant-furnishes to some extent a con- soling ending to Doktor Faustus (p. 91). The “lesson” of the book, he holds, is that Germany can be saved only if “Christian freedom can be transformed...

... (Boston, 1907), I, 5, calls the picaresque novel “the comic biography (or more often the autobiography) of an anti-hero.” 81 disregard here consciously the Catholic as a humanist as he appears in Thomas Mann’s latest work, Doktor Fallstus, because,.characteristically enough, Serenus...

... never made, such as the famous couplet: Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang, der bleibt ein Nan- sein Leben lang. That Ehrenfried Kumpf, in Doktor Faustus, emerges as a crude caricature of Luther seems largely due to the circumstance that Mann’s concept...

.... 306). Here is an echo of what Hans Castorp said to Clavdia Chauchat about her disease mak- ing her “free,” making her genial.? Moreover, it points forward to the later novel, Doktor Faztstits, in which Adrian Leverkuhn contracts syphilis so that he may be free to pursue his art...