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Mephisto

Mephisto

Mann, Klaus
Smyth, Robin

Paperback

Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0140189181
ISBN13: 9780140189186
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Sep 1 1995
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.74
Language: English
It chimes eerily with the times we are living through now. ―Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review

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 place 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.

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