Nietzsche as symbol: Thomas Mann and German tragedy
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, tragedy, Doktor FaustusAbstract
Nietzsche exerted a decisive influence, almost a fascination, on Thomas Mann. Since in the 1920s he gave up nationalist conservatism, the philosopher became the benchmark, mirror and model that helped him to understand that «betrayal» as a form of faithfulness. This essay keeps its focus on Mann’s novel Doktor Faustus, thorough and enigmatic evocation of Nietzsche as tragic symbol of the German catastrophe and attempt to establish the roots of a duality spread through each page of that text.
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