A restless scholar wagers his soul with Mephistopheles for boundless knowledge and earthly experience.
Books mentioned in Faust (2)
Dies Irae by Thomas of Celano: “CHORUS Diesira, dies illa, Solvet soeclum in favilla! (Sound of the organ.)”
The Key of Solomon: “O, now am I sure of thee! For all of thy half-hellish brood The Key of Solomon is good.”
Books that mention Faust (32)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: “On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.”
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot: “Bull's company fits me 'wie die Faust ins Auge.”
Armadale by Wilkie Collins: “The carpet-bag contained nothing but a change of clothing, and two books--the Plays of Sophocles, in the original Greek, and the "Faust" of Goethe, in the original German.”
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: “It is certain that it was not the "Wars of Independence" that made him look up more joyfully, any more than it was the French Revolution,--the event on account of which he RECONSTRUCTED his "Faust," and indeed the whole problem of "man," was the appearance of Napoleon.”
The Bostonians by Henry James: “Do you understand German? Do you know 'Faust'?" said Olive. "'_Entsagen sollst du, sollst entsagen!”
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters: “For those of you who could not see the virtue Of knowing Volney's "Ruins" as well as Butler's "Analogy" And "Faust" as well as "Evangeline," Were really the power in the village, And often you asked me "What is the use of knowing the evil in the world?"”
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw: “Mozart's is the last of the true Don Juans; for by the time he was of age, his cousin Faust had, in the hands of Goethe, taken his place and carried both his warfare and his reconciliation with the gods far beyond mere lovemaking into politics, high art, schemes for reclaiming new continents from…”
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller: “This thought pervades all German literature and is mystically expressed in Goethe's "Faust":”
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: “If Goethe had been stolen away a child, and reared in a robber horde in the depths of a German forest, do you think the world would have had "Faust" and "Iphegenie?"”
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “He was where Goethe was when he began “Faust””
The Firm of Girdlestone by Arthur Conan Doyle: “The opera happened to be 'Faust,' and the magnificent scenery and dresses astonished Kate”
Demian by Hermann Hesse: “"Can you imagine Faust as a regular in some bar night after night?" ... "Yes, well, we can't all be Faust," I said curtly.”
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: “appears in Goethe's Faust successively as Gretchen, Helen of Troy, and the Virgin.”
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell: “Yes, that's the figure that in Goethe's Faust is represented by Mephistopheles.”
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: “'...who are you, then?' 'I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.' (epigraph, attributed to Goethe, Faust)”
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco: “(epigraph) —Faust, ii, Without the City-Gate”
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “She wrote a lot about Goethe's Faust round about then.”
My Life by Richard Wagner: “when I wanted to begin reading Goethe's Faust”
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse: “If "Faust," is treated in this way, Faust, Mephistopheles, Wagner and the rest form a unity and a supreme individuality”
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace: “Ghostly light- and monster-shadow phenomenon particular to certain mountains; e.g. q.v. Part I of Goethe's Faust, the Walpurgisnacht six-toed danceathon on the Harz-Bröcken, in which there's described a classic 'Bröckengespenstphänom.'”
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand: “"Ever read Faust?" "What do you want?" "Howard Roark's neck."”
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov: “Talberg... recalled the dense black chords and the tattered pages of the age-old family copy of Faust.”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “referenced as translated by a character”
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino: “So the story of Doctor Faust mingles also with that of King Midas, in the card of the Ace of Coins, which portrays the terrestrial globe turned into a sphere of solid gold.”
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham: “He made out a list of books which Philip was to read till he was ready for the final achievement of Faust, and meanwhile, ingeniously enough, started him on a German translation of one of the plays by Shakespeare which Philip had studied at school.”
Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle: “or what the Earth-Spirit in Faust names it, the living visible Garment of God”
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev: “What sweet moments Natalya passed when at times in the garden on the seat, in the transparent shade of the aspen tree, Rudin began to read Goethe's Faust, Hoffman, or Bettina's letters, or Novalis, constantly stopping and explaining what seemed obscure to her. Like almost all Russian”
Roderick Hudson by Henry James: “Nay, he too may be a grotesque phantom, like the black dog in Faust.”
Kusamakura by Natsume Sōseki: “I do not mean to spread the realm of Wang Wei and Tao Yuanming in this age, but such feelings seem to me better medicine than a play or a ball. I value them above Faust, above Hamlet. [auto-translated]”
An Inquiry into the Good by Nishida Kitarō: “Like Faust returning to his lonely study late at night after a walk in the fields, following great anguish about life, in quiet nights and a peaceful heart this feeling spontaneously stirs (Goethe, Faust, Part One, Study). [auto-translated]”
Youth by Mori Ōgai: “Shakespeare and Goethe, however splendidly they are staged, can hardly strike today's young people with a painful immediacy. Goethe is the same: if Faust appeared as a new work, what would the young say? [auto-translated]”
Onna Keizu by Izumi Kyōka: “"If I studied as hard as I could, how many years would it take before I could read something like Goethe's famous Faust, or Schiller's Wilhelm Tell... was that the name?" "You'll soon be able to read them," he said, taking the reader from her. "Or at least to my level, with that proviso." [auto-translated]”