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<IsfdbSubmission>
<NewPub>
<Submitter>Pwendt</Submitter>
<Subject>Faust</Subject>
<Title>Faust</Title>
<Year>1980-00-00</Year>
<Publisher>Hamish Hamilton</Publisher>
<Pages>277</Pages>
<Binding>hc</Binding>
<PubType>NOVEL</PubType>
<Isbn>0241102022</Isbn>
<Price>£5.95</Price>
<Note>1st ed.
LCCN: <a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/80142102">80-142102</a>
OCLC: <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/256120179">256120179</a>, as full title:
Faust : being the Historia von D. Johann Fausten dem wietbeschreyten Zauberer und Schwartzkünstler, or History of Dr. John Faust the notorious Magician and Necromancer, as written by his familiar servant and disciple Christopher Wagner, now for the first time Englished from the Low German
 
Price from review by Maev Kennedy Irish Times 1980-10-18 p11; "£5.95 in UK"</Note>
<Authors>
<Author>Robert Nye</Author>
</Authors>
<Synopsis> 
" ’Hey, Faust’. So begins Nye’s slangy, shaggy, pseudo-Rabelaisian reworking of the Faust legend-but the demythifying raunchiness that worked fairly well for <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3073052">Falstaff (1976)</a> and <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3073047">Merlin (1979)</a> mostly falls fiat in this macabre, pornographic description of Faust’s last 40 days (before the Devil comes to claim his soul) ... this time his tireless jazziness becomes tiresome, he degrades the tragic vision of the Faust originals without putting anything in their place, and-like a gifted raconteur telling a long, tasteless joke he starts on a false note and stays there throughout."
--Kirkus Reviews 1981 (<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-nye-5/faust/">undated online</a>)</Synopsis>
<Language>English</Language>
<NonGenre>No</NonGenre>
<Graphic>No</Graphic>
<Source>Other</Source>
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