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In the bitter January of 1888, a German-Polish company touring with Goethe's Faust reaches Lyon, where police are after a killer they call Le Poète. A youth, beaten almost beyond recognition, stumbles into the actors' camp. Seven years pass. Rudolf Steiner, archivist and esotericist, comes to Naumburg at the invitation of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, keeper of her brother's archive and carer of the demented philosopher. What matters most on the visit is a young poet whom Steiner believes Faustian powers are using: something is eating away his memory and strength. Steiner sets out to save him, blind to where his good intentions will lead. Mystery, history and fantasy meet around one question: may an artist do anything at all?

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

568 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Speculative, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

France, Germany, 1888–1895

First published

2020 by Sammakko

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9789524834025 (original)