Alexander Lee

The enduring mystery of Goethe’s Faust

A.N. Wilson sets out to show how Goethe’s life can help us understand what he was trying to do with Faust. But the great work remains something of a puzzle

Faust and Mephistopheles. Credit: Alamy 
issue 26 October 2024

  • Goethe: His Faustian Life

    A.N. Wilson

    Bloomsbury, pp. 320, £25

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