Мефистофель

In the center of the novel by the German writer Klaus Mann, son of Thomas Mann (1906. 1947) is the fate of Hendrik Hefgen, a successful actor, director and manager of the capital's theater, who betrays his talent for the sake of career, position and money, and as a result becomes a servant of the fascist regime . Having taken the path of compromise with his conscience, Hefgen inevitably becomes an accomplice in the crimes committed by the Nazi authorities. "Mephistopheles" is a novel about the relationship between power and creative personality, about the artist's responsibility for what is happening around him.