Mephisto by Klaus Mann

VINTAGE TRADE PAPERBACK [1983] PENGUIN BOOKS

Movie tie in edition.  Nice reading copy with shelf wear and creasing to cover.  

Klaus Mann wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War II. In it he captures the Isherwood-like atmosphere of Nazi Germany while telling a satiric story about the rise to power of one man - a thinly veiled caricature of his own brother-in-law. The man is Hendrik Hofgen, a character actor who in his own life plays a bizarre part in the elite circle of the Third Reich.