A SAVAGE INDICTMENT OF EVIL, TOLD WITH AMAZING SKILL, MEPHISTO IS BASED ON THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR'S OWN BROTHER-IN-LAW, THE CELEBRATED GERMAN ACTOR GUSTAV GRUNDGENS. BANNED IN GERMANY FOR YEARS AFTER ITS INITIAL PUBLICATION, THE BOOK HAS BECOME A BEST-SELLER THROUGHOUT EUROPE WITH THE SUCCESS OF THE RECENT FILM VERSION. IT IS THE STORY OF A MAN OBSESSED WITH A SINGLE PASSION - TO BE A FAMOUS ACTOR. HENDRIK HOFGEN, AS HE IS CALLED IN THE NOVEL, IS AN UNKNOWN ACTOR WHO MARRIES TO ADVANCE HIS CAREER WHILE CONTINUING A MASOCHIS- TIC INVOLVEMENT WITH A BLACK DANCER. WHEN THE NAZIS COME TO POWER, HOFGEN IN ORDER TO KEEP PERFORMING,HASTILY RENOUNCES HIS COMMUNIST PAST AND DESERTS BOTH HIS WIFE AND MISTRESS, WHO HAVE BECOME POLITICAL LIABILITIES. HIS RAPID ASCENT IN NAZI SOCIETY CULMINATES IN HIS TRIUMPHANT PERFORMANCE AS THE DEMONIC MEPHISTO, BRINGING HIM INTO FAVOR WITH HERMANN GORING, WHO APPOINTS HIM HEAD OF THE STATE THEATRE.HOFGEN HAS REACHED THE APEX OF HIS CAREER BUT NOW MUST FACE THE MORAL CONSEQUENCES OF HOW HE GOT THERE. 1ST PUBLISHED 1936: THIS TRANSLATION 1977: AUTHOR DIED 1949(JS-7/91)

Mephisto

Literature & Fiction

Mann, Klaus

Literary

Penguin??Books

Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he willingly renounces his Communist past and deserts his wife and mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in Faust proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann Göring, it wins Hofgen an appointment as head of the State Theatre. The rewards – the respect of the public, a castle-like villa, a uplace in Berlin's highest circles – are beyond his wildest dreams. But the moral consequences of his betrayals begin to haunt him, turning his dreamworld into a nightmare. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Mephisto (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Penguin Classics

Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he willingly renounces his Communist past and deserts his wife and mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in Faust proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann Göring, it wins Hofgen an appointment as head of the State Theatre. The rewards – the respect of the public, a castle-like villa, a uplace in Berlin's highest circles – are beyond his wildest dreams. But the moral consequences of his betrayals begin to haunt him, turning his dreamworld into a nightmare.

Ballantine Books

Andre Gide and the Crisis of Modern Thought

Octagon Books

A SAVAGE INDICTMENT OF EVIL, TOLD WITH AMAZING SKILL, MEPHISTO IS BASED ON THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR'S OWN BROTHER-IN-LAW, THE CELEBRATED GERMAN ACTOR GUSTAV GRUNDGENS. BANNED IN GERMANY FOR YEARS AFTER ITS INITIAL PUBLICATION, THE BOOK HAS BECOME A BEST-SELLER THROUGHOUT EUROPE WITH THE SUCCESS OF THE RECENT FILM VERSION. IT IS THE STORY OF A MAN OBSESSED WITH A SINGLE PASSION - TO BE A FAMOUS ACTOR. HENDRIK HOFGEN, AS HE IS CALLED IN THE NOVEL, IS AN UNKNOWN ACTOR WHO MARRIES TO ADVANCE HIS CAREER WHILE CONTINUING A MASOCHIS- TIC INVOLVEMENT WITH A BLACK DANCER. WHEN THE NAZIS COME TO POWER, HOFGEN IN ORDER TO KEEP PERFORMING,HASTILY RENOUNCES HIS COMMUNIST PAST AND DESERTS BOTH HIS WIFE AND MISTRESS, WHO HAVE BECOME POLITICAL LIABILITIES. HIS RAPID ASCENT IN NAZI SOCIETY CULMINATES IN HIS TRIUMPHANT PERFORMANCE AS THE DEMONIC MEPHISTO, BRINGING HIM INTO FAVOR WITH HERMANN GORING, WHO APPOINTS HIM HEAD OF THE STATE THEATRE.HOFGEN HAS REACHED THE APEX OF HIS CAREER BUT NOW MUST FACE THE MORAL CONSEQUENCES OF HOW HE GOT THERE. 1ST PUBLISHED 1936: THIS TRANSLATION 1977: AUTHOR DIED 1949(JS-7/91)

Random House]

The Turning Point: Thirty-Five Years in This Century : The Autobiography of Klaus Mann

The Turning Point: Thirty-Five Years in This Century : The Autobiography of Klaus Mann

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Markus Wiener Pub

Klaus Mann, writer of Mephisto and the oldest son of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, describes the life of intellectuals in Europe before the Nazi seizure of power, then moves on to depict the restless existence of the often bohemian literary circles of writers in Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, New York, and Hollywood in the 30s and 40s.

The Turning Point: Thirty-Five Years in this Century, the Autobiography of Klaus Mann

Markus Wiener Publishers

The Other Germany

History

Erika, Erika

Europe

Legare Street Press

Pathetic Symphony: A Novel About Tchaikovsky

Kessinger Pub Co

Shelf wear to price clipped dust jacket. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

The Pious Dance: The Adventure Story of a Young Man (English and German Edition)

Olympic Marketing Corp

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