[lbo-talk] Re: Know your enemy

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Sat Apr 19 18:37:21 PDT 2003


Quoting Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>:


> What was Adorno's exact role in the genesis of Doctor
> Faustus, while the two shared an Angeleno exile? Why did they never meet
> again after the war? Who was the real original of Adrian Leverkühn?

(Spoiler alert.)

Teddy was responsible for the musicology, and even gets an electrifying cameo as the Mephisto of modernism; Nietzsche was the prototype for Leverkuehn.

-- DRR

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