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Faust
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The Book Thief
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- The first one, Faust the Dog, was written by a man named Mattheus Ottleberg.†
p. 88.8 *Faust = literary character who sells his soul to the devil in order to become all-knowing
- Faust the Dog also had pictures—lovely curves and ears and caricatures of a German Shepherd with an obscene drooling problem and the ability to talk.†
p. 89.1
- First, he sees the girl's books: The Grave Digger's Handbook, Faust the Dog, The Lighthouse, and now The Shoulder Shrug.†
p. 127.4
Definitions:
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(Faust) literary character who sells his soul to the devil in order to become all-knowing, or godlikeFaust's most famous appearances are as the protagonist of Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" (1604) and Goethe's "Faust" (1832).
A German necromancer, Georg Faust (~1480-~1538) is thought to have been an actual person who inspired the Faustian legend. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)