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Seeking Faust

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Seeking Faust is a wild, ribald, and irreverent ride through the realms of conjuring and alchemy, by the poet Dale Pendell.

8vo (228 × 150 mm)
72 pp
8 pen & ink drawings by Jennifer Rain Crosby

Issued in 3 editions –
standard hardback / paperback / digital

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Seeking Faust is a wild, ribald, and irreverent ride through the realms of conjuring and alchemy, by the poet Dale Pendell.

8vo (228 × 150 mm)
72 pp
8 pen & ink drawings by Jennifer Rain Crosby

Issued in 3 editions –
standard hardback / paperback / digital

Seeking Faust is a wild, ribald, and irreverent ride through the realms of conjuring and alchemy, by the poet Dale Pendell.

8vo (228 × 150 mm)
72 pp
8 pen & ink drawings by Jennifer Rain Crosby

Issued in 3 editions –
standard hardback / paperback / digital


 

Standard hardback edition

– sold out

Limited to 150 copies

Bound in golden ochre cloth stamped in red, scarlet endpapers.

Paperback

– £11

Out of print

Printed on 100 gsm paper, red endpapers..


Characters

Wagner, Faust’s former pupil and assistant
Serpent, a hermaphrodite born from the homunculus
Gretchen, servant girl at the Big House
Victor Frankenstein, a molecular biologist
Mary Shelly, Victor’s partner
Augustine, a philosopher
Elevator operator, foreman, CEO, secretary
People at party, artists, critics, revelers
Sigmund Freud
Oswald Spengler
Martin Luther
Two professors
Psychologist
Scientist
Pride, Greed, Prejudice
Socrates
Newscasters
Daniel Webster
Jailer
Monster

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Seeking Faust is a wild, ribald, and irreverent ride through the realms of conjuring and alchemy, by the poet Dale Pendell, author of the acclaimed Pharmako trilogy on psychoactive plants. Seeking Faust is a comedy of 13 scenes in prose, following a verse prologue; the dramatic form is apposite, invoking its origins in the archaic rites of Dionysus, the god of vegetal life, intoxication and revolution.

With Seeking Faust, Pendell revisits the legend of Dr Faustus, giving his own slant to the story made famous by Marlowe and Goethe. Our protagonist is Wagner, Faust’s former student and apprentice, who has chosen the royal path of alchemy over his master’s necromantic conjurations. His goal, to seek his master whom rumour would have is ‘far from dead.’ By art Wagner makes his antagonist, the Serpent, appear. As Mephistopheles is Faust’s shamanic ally, so is the Serpent – a sexy hermaphrodite born from the homunculus – to Pendell’s Wagner. Born of the homunculus, the hermaphroditic Serpent leads our hero on a visionary journey through various illusory scenarios, including the evocation of Augustine, a psychedelic trip, an encounter with Freud, and eventually ending in jail, defended by Daniel Webster.

Pendell, known for his own adventures on the poison path (‘so completely articulated’ in Goethe’s Faust), here uses humour as a pharmakon to counter our postmodern malaise.

“Thoroughly enjoying the wit, foolishness, and smuttiness of Seeking Faust. Dale Pendell has caught a good mix of neo-Elizabethan and Modernist dictim.”
— Andrew Schelling

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