text: A character in this novel advocates for a "strict style" echoed by his mentor's lecture concerning the "magic square".
full_question: A character in this novel advocates for a "strict style" echoed by his mentor's lecture concerning the "magic square". This novel's protagonist writes a secret manuscript after his friend RÃ¼diger Schildknapp leaves him. Durer's woodcuts influence a character in this novel to create a work titled Apocalypsis cum figuris. Its protagonist deliberately gets syphilis from a woman he calls Esmerelda. A performance of the protagonist's Lamentation of the title character concludes this novel narrated by Serenus Zeitblom. For 10 points, name this Thomas Mann novel about Adrian Leverkuhn, a composer who trades his soul to the devil for twenty-four years of genius.
first_sentence: A character in this novel advocates for a "strict style" echoed by his mentor's lecture concerning the "magic square".
raw_answer: Doktor Faustus [or Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn, as Told by a Friend; or Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkuhn, erzahlt von einem Freunde]