Beschreibung:
A comparative cultural history of figures such as oedipus, Judas and Faust, from antiquity to modern times.
List of illustrations; 1. Judas and Gregorius; 2. The despair of Judas; 3. The penance on the rock; 4. The Mathematicus: putting the blame on Fate; 5. The Vorauer Novelle: 'one shall be taken and the other left; 6. Judas and Everyman; 7. Faust: saved or damned? 8. Bunyan, Gunther, and Lenore; 9. Two novels by Thomas Mann: Doktor Faustus and Der Erwahlte; 10. Sophocles' King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonos; Appendix: unpublished Life of Judas from the Schaffhausen Lectionary; Notes; Index.