Release #6 - Faust: Part 1, The Jaded Poison of Knowledge

The Book of Purgatory is a comic adaptation/reinterpretation + crossover story between classical works of literature, depicting the stories themselves, and what could have happened after their endings. At the forefront of this story is Doctor Faust, and his demonic companion Mephistopheles.

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6: Faust: Part 1, The Jaded Poison of Knowledge

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This chapter introduces the protagonist of the story, who is disappointed by a glorified life of study, which seems to have only produced emptiness and taken from him his humanity. Some quotes are directly from the Kaufmann English translation of Goethe’s Faust.