When his major work premieres, one critic calls him aptly, "a god-witted man."
When his major work premieres, one critic calls him aptly, "a god-witted man." While living at Palestrina with his friend Schildknapp, he creates his rendition of Love's Labour's Lost. His story is related to us by a friend, whose name means "the serene flowering of the time," Serenus Zeitblom, who describes with "a religious shudder" the encounter with Esmeralda which leads to his contracting of syphilis. Developing a twelve-tone technique much like Schoenberg, we also learn this character sells his humanity to the devil for twenty-four years of unparalleled music accomplishment. For 10 points, name this main character of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus.
When his major work premieres, one critic calls him aptly, "a god-witted man."
Adrian {Leverkuhn}