Clearly Demonic: Artistic Experience as Restitution of Life in Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus

Authors

  • Juan David Cabrera Sánchez Universidad de los Andes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2021.25.3

Keywords:

Mann | Crisis | Cultural criticism | Spirit | Artistic experience

Abstract

Within the scene of the fourth decade of the twentieth century in Europe, critical of the consequences of the German war and during his exile in the United States, the writer Thomas Mann published the novel Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, Told by a Friend. In this novel, the singular nature of creation is glimpsed, in contrast to the social conditions of the period in which it was written and, a particular reflection on the restitution of the human experience is highlighted in a context of a “general crisis of culture”. The article explores this experience in the novel through Mann’s analysis, some of the critics of the work and the problem of the poetic, from the point of view of Jean-Luc Nancy.

Author Biography

Juan David Cabrera Sánchez, Universidad de los Andes

Magister en Filosofía - Departamento de Filosofía - Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)

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Published

2021-07-30

How to Cite

Cabrera Sánchez, J. D. (2021). Clearly Demonic: Artistic Experience as Restitution of Life in Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (25), 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2021.25.3

Issue

No. 25 (2021): Crisis, Pandemics, and Counter-hegemony: Reading Paradigm Shifts across World Literature

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Monograph

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