Faust

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Referenced alongside Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus as part of the Faustian literary tradition that informs Kurtz's character — the idea of selling one's soul to the devil. The hosts note that Goethe wrote about Faust, and Thomas Mann would later write about Faust as well, placing Conrad in a long literary lineage.

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Described as Goethe's 'most famous work,' discussed in the context of how the arrival of the Jena set reinvigorated Goethe to continue writing it after he had been stuck.