Caroline’s Reviews > The Story of a Novel: The Genesis of Doctor Faustus > Status Update

Pp 70-71 [Franz Werfel notes Adrian’s laughter in the draft] “with insight and foresight, he thus picked out one of the small motifs of the book, the kind I most enjoy working with—like, say, the erotic motif of the blue and black eyes; the mother motif; the parallelism of the landscapes…

[Mann reading Adorno on Schönberg in the early stages of writing] “Moreover, this reading nourished the musical conception which had long been my ideal of form and for which this time there was a special esthetic necessity. I felt clearly that my book itself would have to become the thing it dealt with: namely, a musical composition.