#doktor faustus

[mejev]

adrian at the beginning and at the end

[ladyofmelk]

i still have to finish it but regardless

[cinematic-literature]

Un beau matin (2022) by Mia Hansen-Løve

Book title

Buddenbrooks (1901) by Thomas Mann

Königliche Hoheit / Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann (the first novel was published in 1909, the second in 1939)

Doktor Faustus (1947) by Thomas Mann

Der Erwählte / Felix Krull by Thomas Mann (the first novel was published in 1951, the second in 1954)

Der Zauberberg (1924) by Thomas Mann

A book from the editorial collection Que sais-je?

Montesquieu par lui-même (1953) by Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, edited by Jean Starobinski

[timesnewrona]

dec 3, 2025 📚

the state of my living room at this point of the semester //

$15 I didn’t want to spend even though I had just quoted the Symposium earlier that day in a paper and want to have it on my shelf //

more books I didn’t buy (I love that store but the prices man) //

a book I did buy came in the mail and it’s not the edition I expected but oh well

[malachia-il-bibliotecario]

and whats crazy is that the book is even more homosexual

[karaviav]

naah we got doktor faustus fanart before gta6

[shredsandpatches]

low-key insane about this

[andietries]

My favourite part of Faust is that Faust is able to make a deal with Mephistopheles because he drew a pentagram at the entry of his house wrong, accidentally creating a literal demon trap. So when the “dog” followed him home, he could pass but not get out

Which I think is the greatest way to fix a plothole. The expert in mystic arts cannot draw