![]() Nietzsche himself was cosmopolitan and very critical of nationalists and anti-Semites, but his attack on traditional morality and his promotion of irrationalism helped to lay the ideological groundwork for militant German nationalism. Like Nietzsche – on whom he is partially modelled – Leverkühn remains paralysed for the last ten years of his life, and is looked after by his family. The composer Adrian Leverkühn is not a fascist himself, but a genius who becomes infected with syphilis and who collapses into paralysis in 1930, three years before Hitler came to power. Instead it explores tendencies within German culture which may have contributed to the rise of German fascism, through the life of the fictional composer Adrian Leverkühn (1885-1940). ![]() The novel can be interpreted as Mann’s fictional reckoning with National Socialism however the novel does not deal with National Socialism directly. ![]()
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