"My peace is gone" —one of the lines that lingers when one considers the wealth of quotations from Goethe's Faust. A quote that reflects the dilemma of Margarete, called Gretchen. The well-to-do scholar Dr. Heinrich Faust, on the other hand, is in the throes of an existential crisis. Rejuvenated by his alliance with Mephistopheles, he is increasingly driven to world-shaking adventures, and, incidentally, he is also drawn to the  "Eternal Feminine  ." Heinrich is torn and seeks the noise of the world. And Gretchen?

Faust Gretchen

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Virginia Woolf called it "the most boring novel in the world." Kurt Tucholsky compared this work to a Maggi bouillon cube that would be brewed mediocrely for generations.

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