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Faust
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- 1540-00-00
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25 sectionsContents
- Summary of the story
- Sources
- Locations linked to the story
- Literary adaptations
- Marlowe's ''Doctor Faustus''
- Goethe's ''Faust''
- Mann's ''Doctor Faustus''
- Benét's ''The Devil and Daniel Webster''
- Selected additional dramatic works
- Selected additional novels, stories, poems, and comics
- Cinematic adaptations
- Early films
- Murnau's ''Faust''
- Post-war
- Audio adaptations
- Musical adaptations
- Operatic
- Symphonic
- Other adaptations
- In psychotherapy
- See also
- References
- Literary sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|300px|Dr. Fausto by Jean-Paul Laurens thumb|1876 'Faust' by Goethe, decorated by Rudolf von Seitz|Rudolf Seitz, large German edition
Faust ( ; ) is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a deal with the Devil at a crossroads, 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 sacrificing spiritual values for power, knowledge, or material gain.