The Poetics of the Possible

In the 1940s Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg got entangled in a feud on occasion of the publication of Mann’s "Doctor Faustus." Advised by Theodor Adorno, Mann had modeled the musical breakthrough of his main character, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, on Schoenberg’s twelve-tone method. Living then...

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