bodies, all words. More, more and more. More money, more sex. More pain, more pleasure, more forgetting. Standstill is death. This is us. And Faust is one of us. After generations of readers praised him as the energetic Titan who casts off the shackles of faith, tradition and nature and at the same time takes the world into his own hands with his destiny, we now recognize that Faust has lost his way - and we with him .