Doctor Faustus

This book is a masterpiece of the German writer Thomas Mann in his later years, which is the most heart-breaking and most shocking. Adrian Leverkuehn, the fictitious composer protagonist of this novel, a young man with a musical talent and a bright future, was never satisfied with the current status, but pursued the "e;true greatness"e;, and therefore made a Faustian bargain for a 24-year musical creative genius; During this period, the devil had his soul and he was not allowed to love. However, while he rises constantly in arts, his surrounding environment is full of moral degradation crisis, and he himself began disobey the principle of love-forbidden; People around him started to die: his acquaintances killed themselves, his gay boyfriend was shot by a married woman...Being torn by grief, Adrian suddenly woke up and decided to make confession for his life. Eventually he collapsed both physically and mentally, and was picked back home by his mother; he left the world in 1940 after a decade of madness.