本书为德国大文豪托马斯·曼晚年最令人揪心和震撼的鸿篇巨制。小说主人翁为虚构的作曲家阿德里安·莱韦屈恩，一个有着音乐天赋，前程似锦的年轻人，可他不满足于现状并追求"真正伟大的成功"，因此与魔鬼做了交易，换取24年的音乐灵感与创造力；在此期间，他的灵魂归魔鬼所有，而且他不可以有爱，然而，就在他艺术上步步高升时，他周围的环境却不断出现道德堕落的危机现象，他本人也开始违背那道不许爱人的禁令；他身边开始不断有人死亡，他的熟人自杀，他的同性恋男友被有夫之妇枪杀......阿德里安悲愤欲绝，突然猛醒，他要对他的一生进行忏悔，最终，他身心崩溃，由他的母亲接回故乡，在经历了十年的疯癫之后，于1940年辞世。(This book is a masterpiece of the German writer Thomas Mann in his later years, which is the most heart-breaking and most shocking. Adrian Leverkühn, the fictitious composer protagonist of this novel, a young man with a musical talent and a bright future, was never satisfied with the current status, but pursued the "true greatness", and therefore made a Faustian bargain for a 24-year musical creative genius; During this period, the devil had his soul and he was not allowed to love. However, while he rises constantly in arts, his surrounding environment is full of moral degradation crisis, and he himself began disobey the principle of love-forbidden; People around him started to die: his acquaintances killed themselves, his gay boyfriend was shot by a married woman...Being torn by grief, Adrian suddenly woke up and decided to make confession for his life. Eventually he collapsed both physically and mentally, and was picked back home by his mother; he left the world in 1940 after a decade of madness.)