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together some 450 items of iraust-Literature, the detail-s
of l'ihici: he pu'blished beõween tB98 and r90r' ¡lhnost
ninety add-itional references have been discovered since
Tille r s collection was ¡:ubli shed-. 4'
In an appenciix to his study on the development of
the Faust figure from the l6th cenüury Lo L9l+6, Karl
Theens has Iisted 9l+ rnusical, Iiterary, and dramatic
renclitions in bhe German, English, La'tin, French,
i{e has also mentioned
ftalian and Spanish languages "
important analogies in ihe works of Lord r3yron,
lleririk Ibsen, Á.ugust Strindirerg, the Hungarian F;merich
i;iedoch, rhe Czech Jaroslav Vrcl'rlisk;', and Thornton
uiilcl-er. Perhaps iL is both revealing and- notewor"thy
that i(olbenheyerÌs ParaceJ-Fus-'fr+o , carried ouf as
it is on the grand scale, is not even mentioned.
Goethets creaii-on of l¡qrs! suggests the view that
ea.ch re-creaLÍon is a mask for an authorrs confessi-on.
Äfter all, ir iook Goethe over sixty years of personal
experience and literary endeavour before he felt equal
to completing his work" The analogy rn¡ith the hisborical
Paracelsus is here too close to pass unperceived for he
wrole:
Î?If you are called to v'¡rite a bookr You r'uill not
fail to do sor even if +t is delayed for sixby
years or even longer, rt ) o