Klaus Mann. Used. Good condition. Slight cover wear.
"Mephisto - a novel of a career" is the sixth novel by the author Klaus Mann, in which the actor Gustaf Gründgens plays a central role as the fictional character Hendrik Höfgen. It tells the story of the actor Hendrik Höfgen from 1926 in the Hamburg Artists' Theater to 1936, when he became a celebrated star of the so-called New Reich. Höfgen, who only came to terms with those in power late in the Nazi era and was thus appointed artistic director of the Berlin State Theater, initially flees from his future friends to Paris because he is afraid of persecution due to his "cultural Bolshevik" past. From this point on, Höfgen realizes that he has already lost some of his "real" friends, such as his wife Barbara Bruckner and Mrs. von Herzfeld. However, back in Berlin, he is able to win over Lotte Lindenthal, the wife of the air force general. The general himself thinks highly of Höfgen, his plaything. As a passionate actor, for whom the role of Mephisto in Goethe's Faust I was tailor-made, the opportunist Höfgen only realises far too late that he has actually made a pact with the devil - Mephistopheles.