Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “Section epigraph directly credits Mann's own account of writing it: '(Thomas Mann, Die Entstehung des Dr. Faustus)'; also named twice more as 'Dr. Faustus' among Frederica's course texts and the burned books.”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “Equally classic is the figure of the scientist as satanist (Doctor Faustus, and stories of Poe and Hawthorne).”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “"the model of Mann's Doctor Faustus was fundamental" to The Name of the Rose”