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    Oscar classici moderni - 143: Doctor Faustus
    Buddenbrooks
    Steppenwolf
    Demian
    • Demian

      • 184 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
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      Schoolboy Emil Sinclair boasts of a theft and finds himself blackmailed by a bully. He turns to Max Demain in whom he finds a friend and mentor. Under this strangely self-possessed figure's guidance, Emil discovers a new world of corruption and evil.

      Demian
    • Steppenwolf

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
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      Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet this novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, "Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any other".

      Steppenwolf
    • Buddenbrooks

      • 624 pages
      • 22 hours of reading
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      Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of Lübeck, and their milieu.

      Buddenbrooks
    • Oscar classici moderni - 143: Doctor Faustus

      La vita del compositore tedesco Adrian Leverkühn narrata da un amico

      • 579 pages
      • 21 hours of reading

      Opera tra le più significative di Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus è la tragica storia di Adrian Leverkühn, un musicista tedesco che come Faust ottiene dal demonio anni di meravigliosa attività intellettuale in cambio della dannazione eterna. Scritto alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale e nell'immediato dopoguerra, il romanzo dà voce all'atmosfera disperata di quella che fu la catastrofe della Germania. Intorno alla narrazione principale, che abbraccia tre generazioni, si muove un mondo di personaggi presentati con la sapiente maestria di un grande stilista, con accorata pietà o con mordente ironia, mentre alla trama centrale si annodano digressioni che spaziano nei campi della musica, della filosofia, della scienza.

      Oscar classici moderni - 143: Doctor Faustus