Abstract In its peritext, Thomas Mann’s Entstehung des Doktor Faustus is described as a “Roman eines Romans”. The essay reasons that this description of its genre as well as structural aspects of its composition mark it as an autobiographical text. Instead of following most studies on the Doktor Faustus, which regard the Entstehung simply as a documentary source for exposing autobiographical intricacies of Mann’s novel, textual evidence for the Entstehung’s autonomy is given. The analysis focuses first on the structural frame of the Entstehung in order to show Mann’s central techniques of autobiographical self-stylization. In this context auto-fictional elements can also be identified. Exemplary passages from two longer sections are taken into account based on these findings. While the Doktor Faustus is a recurrent topic in these passages, it is not, by any means, the only one. Combined with varying autobiographical writing techniques, the Entstehung is thus displaying continuous independence from the Faustus. Based on these insights, future Mann studies on both works may reevaluate the role of the Entstehung for the reception of the Faustus and the status of autobiographical literature in the works of Thomas Mann.

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Autonom autobiografisch: Zu Thomas Manns Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus

摘要 托马斯·曼 (Thomas Mann) 的《浮士德博士》(Entstehung des Doktor Faustus) 在其附文中被描述为“罗马人”。这篇文章的理由是，这种对其体裁的描述以及其构成的结构方面将其标记为自传体文本。与大多数关于浮士德博士的研究不同，这些研究将 Entstehung 简单地视为揭示曼恩小说自传性错综复杂的文献来源，而是提供了 Entstehung 自主性的文本证据。分析首先集中在 Entstehung 的结构框架上，以展示曼的自传式自我风格化的核心技术。在这种情况下，还可以识别自动虚构元素。基于这些发现考虑了来自两个较长部分的示例性段落。虽然浮士德博士是这些段落中反复出现的话题，无论如何，它不是唯一的。结合不同的自传写作技巧，Entstehung 因而表现出对浮士德的持续独立性。基于这些见解，未来曼恩对这两部作品的研究可能会重新评估 Entstehung 在接受浮士德方面的作用以及自传文学在托马斯曼作品中的地位。