Allusions and Sources
Doctor Faustus is constructed in richly allusive and symbolic terms. H.T. Lowe-Porter refers to the three strands of the book:
'the German scene from within, and its broader, its universal origins; the depiction of an art not German alone but vital to our whole civilization; music as one instance of the arts and the state in which the arts find themselves today ; and, finally, the invocation of the daemonic.' (Translator's note, vi.)
Mann wrote a book about the writing of this novel, 'The Genesis of Doctor Faustus' (1949).
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