Doctor Faustus Novel
So, I’m already off to a great start at writing Friday posts. This will hopefully make up for my absence. Which means that Orey is really the only one who is being a true slacker. So because I don’t really have any information to offer all of you diligent readers, I might just try to convince you of how my life is interesting.
So the problem here is that most of you who read this probably already know what I was referring to when I mentioned Faustus in the title. More specifically I’m talking about the magnum opus of famous German author Thomas Mann. This class that I’m taking now (yes I’m taking about school cause it’s all I do) is called Music and Literature: Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus. At the class’ core is the weighty novel that we are to read over the semester, which talks about a fictitious composer named Adrian Leverkuhn, living in pre-Nazi Germany up until his untimely death at the onset of World War II. Now I’m no history enthusiast, but I do enjoy learning about the inner cultural and psychological thoughts that led the German nation to such a precipitous decline. And what is the best part is that music is involved! So while reading Faustus and Stern (a historical novel that covers ancestral Germany up and through to the New Republic) I also get to listen to compositions by the masters. Why just a few minutes ago I was listening to Beethoven’s Op. 111 Piano Sonata. Yes it is great fun (at least for me…) Anyway the book is full of allegories between Leverkuhn’s life and the condition of the German nation during the rise of the Third Reich. In fact the book is an allegory of allegories to be more specific.
Thomas Mann author
Ok so anything else to rant about? Hmmmmmm….I guess not really. Oh, I get to go to a club on Friday. Excuse me, it is actually called a Danceboutique. :P I’ll make sure to paste a rainbow somewhere on me for the occasion.
~Ryan
