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Best books to read after Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Readers who love Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are drawn to its combination of the greatest Faustian bargain in literature, the towering ambition of the two-part structure spanning sixty years of composition, and the investigation of what it means to strive without limit — they want works that deal with the Faustian theme, the German classical and Romantic tradition, and the encounter between the human desire for transcendence and the forces that both enable and destroy it.