Story of a Novel: The Genesis of Doctor Faustus by MANN, Thomas - 1961

NY: PRAEGER PUB.. VG. PAPERBACK. FIRST PRINTING. 1989.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Description taken from dust jacket: In the beginning Mann wanted simply to tell the story of how he came to write a Faust novel and how under the influence of contemplation and reading and "the pressure and tumult of outer events," it became the celebrated book we know. But as so often hammered with Mann, the book he wrote was quite different from the book he planned, and in the end The Story of a Novel became no less than an account of the challenge, the delights, and the torments of the creative process itself— a unique answer to the question readers of masterpieces have never tried of asking "How did he do it?" Manny ells the absorbing story of the long period of incubation of Doctor Faustus and its sudden ripening under the impact of world events. He recalls his many hours of self-doubt and the trials that his self-criticism imposed upon him at every stage. And throughout there are intimate descriptions of his life in wartime California, of the circle of "men of understanding and good will" with… Read More