Faust, Part I - Goethe the Decadents

the Decadents

It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbier

yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI

Leda is overwhelmed by memories of the difficult and unconventional choices she made as a mother and their consequences for herself and her family

Les Halles

Faust, Part I - Goethe the DecadentsGoethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe's great work the embittered thinker