Literature > Faust and Faustus

Wer immer strebend sich bemüht .... – UTV, 2.

The presence of Goethe's Faust among the epigraphs of UTV provides an early signal as to the "hint of redemption for the poor old Consul at the end" ['LJC', 85].

A modern film version of the Faustus story. – UTV, 28.
Then will I headlong fly into the earth: / Earth, gape! it will not harbour me! – UTV, 34.

Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is, on the whole, privileged by Lowry over Goethe's rendition of the story, as Marlowe's "morality play" informs and shapes Lowry's theme.

Below: Rembrandt's 'Faust in his Study', c. 1650.