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Doctor Faustus
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1947
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 530
A composer trades his health for twenty-four years of genius, courting the illness he treats as a devil's bargain, and his mind collapses in confession as Germany collapses around him.
Genius is a form of vital power deeply experienced in illness, creating out of illness, through illness creative.
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