Abstract:The central idea of this article is to point at the fundamental role of some aspects of the romantic intellectual tradition for the understanding of the relation between the artist and society critically exposed by Thomas Mann in his novel Doktor Faustus. In this perspective, it is considered that an exacerbation deforming the romantic tradition is -in the ways this is suggested in the novel and in the trajectory of the protagonist, the musician Adrian Leverkühn -a common point between Mann"s evaluation of the… Show more
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