Doctor Faustus (Paperback)

It consoles me to be able to tell myself that the reader cannot lay to my charge the extraordinary size of the last chapter, which considerably exceeds the disquieting number of pages in the one on Kretschmar's lectures. The unreasonable demand made upon the reader does not lie at my door and need not trouble me.
To mitigate Adrian's account by subjecting it to any kind of editing; to dismiss the 'dialogue' in a few numbered paragraphs (will the reader please note the protesting quotation-marks I have given the word, without concealing from myself that they can remove from it only part of its indwelling horror); to do this no regard for the possible failure of the reader's capacity could possibly move me.