Mephisto

By Klaus Mann

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Mephisto is a 1936 novel by Klaus Mann about Hendrik Höfgen, an ambitious German actor who compromises with the Nazi regime to advance his career. Modelled on Mann's former brother-in-law Gustaf Gründgens, it is a study of artistic collaboration with authoritarian power and was long banned in West Germany.

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• Margaret Atwood: “These are the questions “Mephisto” raises. They were both pertinent and prescient in 1936, and they’re still with us today.”