Doktor Faustus is an intricate web of connected narratives: the main story about the composer Adrian Leverkühn, the story of the narrator Serenus Zeitblom, the historical time of Germany at the end of world war II, Thomas Mann and his diary where he details the story of how the novel was created, philosophical, historical and musicological ruminations, and many, many more. I read this book the first time it must be twenty years ago, and it left an impression - even though I don't really remember details it was like rereading a deeply known tale. What I found interesting how much our world has changed since reading. I think I read it in the 80s before the wall came down and when we were still living in the cold war times which were a direct development of WWII and consequently of the historical events depicted and thought about in the book. Since then I feel that the whole paradigm of politics has changed so that in the last twenty years more has changed than in the 40 before them. Two weeks ago while still reading the end I was travelling by train from the South of Bavaria to Berlin crossing all the land where this German story takes places, seeing the towns and fields. All of that resonated strongly with the letters on the page in the sense that there are still traces if only visual of what was depicted in this novel. ( )