The protagonist of this novel is heart broken when his nephew nicknamed "Little Echo" dies of cerebral meningitis while visiting his farm, and he is obsessed in his childhood with the transparent wings of the "Heroera" butterfly.
The protagonist of this novel is heart broken when his nephew nicknamed "Little Echo" dies of cerebral meningitis while visiting his farm, and he is obsessed in his childhood with the transparent wings of the "Heroera" butterfly. The funeral of actress Clarissa Rodde reignites an adulterous affair which ends when Inez Institoris shoots Rudolph on a streetcar when he attempts to woo Marie Godeau. Schildknapp leads the protagonist to a brothel where he acquires syphilis from Esmeralda, and after this incident he goes onto create the oratorio The Apocalypse, but goes insane after playing the first chord of his final work about "The Lamentation" of the title character. FTP, Serenus Zeitblom narrates the story of composer Adrian Leverkuhn in this novel written by Thomas Mann.
The protagonist of this novel is heart broken when his nephew nicknamed "Little Echo" dies of cerebral meningitis while visiting his farm, and he is obsessed in his childhood with the transparent wings of the "Heroera" butterfly.
{Doctor Faustus}