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Ostensibly Faustus is the biography-in-progress of a fictitious German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, who was born in 1885 and died insane in 1940. The biography is being written during World War II by his lifelong friend, Serenus Zeitblom, a professor, a dedicated parlor humanist and a typically humorless academic product of pre-Hitler German Kultur. This combination of dates, musical genius and philosophical reflection gives Mann, as his old readers could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind...
Mocking Genius. Mann has chosen no conventionally flashy music-hall prodigy for his case history of a genius. Adrian Leverkühn, as his friend Zeitblom remembers him, was a brilliant, mocking, arrogant schoolboy who, even in his early teens, was constantly throwing off deep remarks. Sample: "Technique and comfort-in that state one talks about culture but one has not got it. Will you prevent me from seeing in the homophone-melodic constitution of our music a condition of musical civilization-in contrast to the old contrapuntal polyphone culture...
...annual report of the Fogg Art Museum, issued by the director, Professor Charles H. Moore, enumerates the many important accessions of the past year. A picture attributed to Bartholomaus Zeitblom, a German painter of the late fifteenth century, has been purchased with--the income of the Prichard fund. The subject of this picture is the Visitation and it is on panel, in excellent condition, and a fine example of the German art of its time. From Mr. Roger A. Derby, the museum has received an Italian painting of the Madonna with St. Catherine, attributed to Luini. Messrs. E. W. Forbes...
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