Last night I went to the theater to see a play based on the novel "Mephisto" by Klaus Mann. It's from 1936, very topical and reflects the current developments in the USA in a frighteningly accurate way. A must-read.
It's about Hitler's rise to power and how people deal with it. Ignore or gloss over the situation? Deny yourself? Resist? Collaborate with fascists in the hope of not becoming a victim yourself?
Don't become a "monkey of power"!
C’est l’heure de miam #Touffue #Ventouse #Lucifer #Mephisto #Venturière (Skatter)
C’est l’heure des chatons #Touffue #Ventouse #Lucifer #Mephisto #Venturière
Today in Writing History January 19, 1829: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's “Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy” premiered. It’s the story of a scientist who makes a pact with the devil to gain power and knowledge. It took him 37 years to complete the play. Goethe also published scientific works on anatomy and botany. In the late 1700s, he wrote that variation in plants and animals was due to descent from common ancestors. This idea later influenced Darwin, who also credited Goethe with discovering the intermaxillary bone. Goethe’s novel, “Sorrows of Young Werther,” led to a suicide craze in Europe.
#writing #playwright #faust #Mephisto #Goethe #novel #fiction #Devil #darwin #science #evolution @bookstadon
First post~ Portrait of my Mephistopheles in tenuous contemporary human guise.
