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The enduring mystery of Goethe’s Faust

26 October 2024

9:00 AM

26 October 2024

9:00 AM

Goethe: His Faustian Life A.N. Wilson

Bloomsbury, pp.320, 25

A.N. Wilson has never been afraid of big subjects. His previous books have tackled the Victorians, Charles Dickens, Dante, Jesus and Hitler, to name just a few. So it’s hardly a surprise that he’s now decided to have a crack at Goethe’s Faust.

How do all the intellectual fireworks fit together? What, in short, does it all mean?

As literary whales go, they don’t get much bigger.

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