goethe's faust is supposed to be this wildly influential piece of literature but i've not once heard anybody reference it, except in an advertisement of a kind of crappy YA novel. academics explain pls
(for reference, it was when advertising "another faust", a kind of crappy YA novel about a bunch of boarding school teens who get super powers from the devil)
anyways why is it that i have never once in my life heard the worlds most wildly influential piece of literature ever discussed ever?? i hear so much about shake spear and bayowolf and naruto and jesus but not this???
devtesla wrote
I know that a Faustian Bargain is giving up your moral integrity in exchange for power but I don't know anything about the details of the story that's referencing I'm assuming that happens.