Faust Part II: Feels Unguided and Too Meta

This is a follow-up article to my first reflection on Faust, which covers the prologue. You can read it here.

Dramatist

I am into Faust Part II now (which, by the way, I’m reading through Serial App, which you should totally check out), and all through Part I, I must say, the Dramatist was going strong. I was really appreciating the story – what parts of it I could follow – and I felt like there was an appropriate blend of spectacle, fantastic creatures, and compelling characters to make it...