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Are there any decent Fausts to read beyond Goethe's and Thomas Mann's?

>> No.13125267

Maturin, Charles R. Melmoth the Wanderer. , 1892. Print.

>> No.13125271

Marlowe's, Jarry's

>> No.13125272

>>13125259
Christopher Marlowe

>> No.13125279

bulgakov

>> No.13125284

>>13125279
Master and Margarita is a Faust?

>> No.13125289

>>13125267
>Melmoth the Wanderer is an 1820 Gothic novel by Irish playwright
>The novel's titular character is a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life, and searches the world for someone who will take over the pact for him, in a manner reminiscent of the Wandering Jew.
wtf, /pol/ is everywhere

>> No.13125293

>>13125284
Sort of.

>> No.13125294

>>13125267
>>13125271
>>13125272
is Marlowe's readable for moderns or is a translation needed?

>> No.13125307

>>13125289
no way a /pol/-tard has ever read anything that comes in four volumes, unless it's fucking Wilhelm Marr or somebody

>> No.13125507

>>13125307
I have, Melmoth's a hefty tome, but not bad as they go. Still, Lewis' Monk is a bit better.

>> No.13125512

>>13125507
You're well ahead of your contemporaries, then.
>The Monk: A Romance
underrated af. you have my respect

>> No.13125718

is there any spanish/italian Faust, is this more of a northern european thing?

>> No.13125741

>>13125718
isn't don juan/giovanni the mediterranian Faust? so a Faust that Has sex instead of occultism?

>> No.13125804

>>13125259
Klaus Mann's?

>> No.13126004

>>13125804
sounds good, i didn't know the son wasn't a pleb

>> No.13126017

>>13125259
just watch Mephisto already.

>> No.13126032

>>13126017
István Szabó?

>> No.13126043

>>13126032
who else?
also, Švankmajer's Faust.

>> No.13126045 [DELETED] 

>>13125307
I read Gibbon's Decline and Fall. I also read my encyclopedia set up through the letter F; then I got bored with it and quit... also Roots of Strategy.

>> No.13126056

The Recognitions
The Master & Margarita

>> No.13126064

>>13126045
based
Gibbon is amazing

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>>13126043
pretty cute homunculus tbf

>> No.13126084

>>13126069
>Švankmajer's Faust.
you're welcome, cunt.

>> No.13127927

>>13125294
I read it in early high school for pleasure

>> No.13127958

Mann's Faustus is simply too modern to be tolerable. The pact with the devil is consecrated by syphillis from a whore? The prize to be won is the power of creating the great post-modern composition? Give me a break you fucking conscientious objector. Stick your Germanic pacifism where the sun doesn't shine and it'll finally have some utility.

It's a shame the book is so beautiful.

>> No.13128003

read my play Nietzsche In Love for a crisp take on (secular!!!) Mephistopheles as part of the inbegriff Gesamtkunstwerk von Expressionismus perfekt eigenvalue

>> No.13128031

>>13128003
well aren't you special

>> No.13128183

>>13127958
His conversation with the devil was amazing, what're you on about
Adrian told Satan he was a hallucination and he just responds with "Sure, but we're still having this conversation anyway, and if I am one then it's too late for you to turn my deal down."
One of the most chilling chapters I've read

>> No.13130091

>>13125259
The Devil and Daniel Webster

>> No.13130099

>>13126069
if you like homunculi, you could do worse than reading the unknown masterpiece that is Death's Jest Book by Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

>> No.13130776

>>13125294
Probably it's called the early modern period for a reason

>> No.13130904

How's the Peter Salm (Bantam Classics) translation? I picked it up for a buck at a book sale

>> No.13130912

>>13125259
Madoka Magica

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>>13130099

>> No.13131177

>>13125259
Marlowe you beerswaggling Deutschland fuck.

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>>13125259
Puella Magi Madoka Magica

>> No.13131496

>>13125259
Marius The Epicurean is a curiously Faustian tale, in that its protagonist seeks wisdom through experience in that kind of belated or touristy way that Montaigne and Shakespeare didn't--or rather didn't need to. Not sure if Pater consciously intended it as such, especially since the theme was pervasive during the Romantic era.

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>>13127958
t.

>> No.13133084

my diary desu

>> No.13133284

Frankenstein
The Tempest

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>>13125259

>> No.13133499

>>13133465
baste

>> No.13134705

>>13125741
Fausto Criollo de Estanislao del Campo.