FAUST by Goethe FULL Audio Book, Greatest Audio Books ( Faust 1)
FAUST by Goethe FULL AudioBook, Greatest Audio Books (Faust 1) Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar but one dissatisfied with his life who therefore makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. Faust and the adjective Faustian imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited Translated as fist in High German, the name Faust suggests someone who resorts to extraordinary means to achieve goals, akin to if not actually involving force; it also implies unusual tenacity and persistence. The Faust of early booksas well as the ballads, dramas, movies and puppetplays which grew out of themis irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge;
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