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Anonymous Tue Jun 17 01:13:28 2014 No.5022666 [DELETED]

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Hey /lit/

Can you recommend me any books about Faustian pacts, corruption of the innocent and so forth?
I've read Goethe's and Marlowe's Faust, Wilde's Dorian Gray. Something along those lines would be great.

Thanks in advance

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 01:18:22 2014 No.5022680 >>5022666 >dat topic >those trips we better recommend him some fucking books guys

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 01:19:31 2014 No.5022684 >>5022666 Doctor Faustus

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 01:26:51 2014 No.5022712 >>5022680 Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name >>5022684 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus? I've read that, see the part about Marlowe in my OP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 02:11:35 2014 No.5022816 >>5022712 Which one?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 02:12:49 2014 No.5022820 >>5022712 >Tragical

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 02:15:04 2014 No.5022824 >>5022816 No, sorry. The Thomas Mann novel about Schoenberg

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 02:20:04 2014 No.5022830 >>5022666 What translation of Goethe's Faust did you read. Do you read part 2? This fiction has been really hard to get into

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 02:37:17 2014 No.5022868 >>5022820 What's wrong about that? I assumed that is the correct translation. >>5022824 Thanks, I'll look into that. >>5022830 I've read it in its original, fortunately, both Faust I and II.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 09:35:01 2014 No.5023761 Bump.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 09:53:05 2014 No.5023803 >>5022666 Asimov and Bulgakov have some really good "contract with the devil" stories and how all desires are actually worse than the current situation

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 10:11:59 2014 No.5023843 >>5023803 Thanks, anything in specific?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 10:14:16 2014 No.5023847 >>5022666 The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith. Anything by Bertrand Russell works too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 20:31:13 2014 No.5025865 File: 2.87 MB, 320x240, 1402359876736.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5022824 I meant which name.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 22:12:35 2014 No.5026265 File: 42 KB, 948x1440, 9780199540297_custom-4f4ce8eb0af1d948a25bc53fd5a4498e8c28f4d7-s6-c30.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5022666 >666 ...also, check out "Melmoth The Wanderer." Sometimes called the Scottish Faust.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 18 01:44:36 2014 No.5026807 Washington Irving- The Devil and Tom Walker Stephen Vincent Benet- The Devil and Daniel Webster Klaus Mann- Mephisto Bulgakov- The Master and Margarita Gaddis- The Recognitions

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 18 17:50:13 2014 No.5029169 Bump because its not everyday the devil comes here to ask for literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 18 17:55:47 2014 No.5029188 >>5029169 Thanks Anon. Speaking of which, what would be the Devils favourite book? Paradise Lost maybe?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 18 17:59:13 2014 No.5029199 >>5023847 Most excelent choices, my good sir! I compliment your ereudite criticisms of modern bourgeois thought! tips fedora

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