Expression and Adorno's Avant-Garde: The Composer in Doktor Faustus From: German Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Kraus, Justice | Copyright American Association of Teachers of German, Inc. Spring 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Thomas Mann prefaces Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus: Roman eines Romans (1949) with an excerpt from Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit. Here, Goethe contends that works having an immediate impact on their contemporary cultures and works treating issues of national culture become ineffective as time passes. His solution: "Deshalb ist es billig, ihnen [solchen Arbeiten] einen historischen Wert zu verschaffen, indem man sich über ihre Entstehung mit wohlwollenden Kennern unterhält" (qtd. in Man...