The socio-political image can be examined more deeply in a larger context, for like Mann, other representative modernist writers, such as Virginia Woolf, T. Toward the tragic end of the novel, the musico-literary, aesthetic symbol stimulates the reader’s sociopolitical imagination and evokes a democratic society organized with extreme caution as a possible “breakthrough” and/or “hope beyond hopelessness” after World War II. In addition, several other string quartets appear, gradually developing the image of the musical discourse into a rich, microcosmic symbol for literature. It is clear from Mann’s diary and other writings that the novel is greatly influenced by a particular string quartet, Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet in A Minor, Op. The purpose of this essay is to explore how Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn As Told by a Friend (1947) creates the symbolism of the string quartet.
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