On Dichotomies in Mann’s Doctor

Faustus and Their Relation to

Serialist Music Or:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love Timothy Tempter

Sloan Quessenberry
 What Happen in Book?

● Follows the life of composer Adrian Leverkühn as told by his friend

Serenus Zeitblom
● Goes from studying theology to studying music
● Meets a prostitute and gets syphilis from her
● Makes a deal with the Devil: 24 years of genius in exchange for his ability
to feel love
● Everything goes downhill from there, but he writes some cool music
● Ends up in a completely mentally deteriorated state after writing an
Book oratorio about the famous character Doctor Faustus (like the title :o)
But how it be like
music?
● Obviously, it’s about a composer
● Less obviously, it’s about
Serialism
● Even less obviously, it’s also
about Serialism

Arnold
Some opposites

● The Actual Story

○ Crystal V Plant
● The Characters
○ Adrian V Zeitblom
● The Book Itself
○ Narrator v not having one (I guess)

Opposites
What does this have to do with cerealism?

Cereals
 *Serialism

● Structure (composition) of Crystal and Plant

● Zeitblom and Adrian
○ Religion
○ Studies
○ Love?
● The fact that there’s a narrator
Serialism
The end……………... ?

The end
Yes.
Yes