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Faust on Capri
Munthe and the myth of Mephistopheles
My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea
- like a Greek temple and light, light, light everywhere!
Back to Faust
According to Leo
Ruickbie there has been
two main approaches to
Faust:
1) take him as a literary
creation
2) strip him down to only
that which can be proven
Ruickbie tried to
reconstruct the historical
Faust
Contemporary sources
Seven contemporary
sources
First mentioned by
Trithemius and his
friend Rufus in 1513
Luther and his circle
discussed Faust in the
mid-1530s.
Mephistopheles
The essence of the
Faust myth.
The symbol of the
dark side of
knowledge, a theme
already found in
Genesis.
The shadow of Faust,
and Man.