Faust and the Faustian are at the heart of Clark's motto, "Challenge Convention, Change the World." We're interested in how this fifteenth-century, small-town German necromancy caught the attention of so many writers, artists, and musicians, including Marlowe, Goethe, Bulgakov, Mann, Havel, Liszt and Gounod.
Friday, December 17, 2010
In English: "Faustian Bargain"
So I used the new interface with google books, which allows you to search terms in all 5 million books that are in the google books data base. I was stunned to see that the term "faustian bargain" has really only taken off since the 1960s.
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