SOURCE: "Faust en Pataphysicien," in Journal of European Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1, March-June, 1983, pp. 96-108.
Gillespie is an American educator and critic specializing in German literature. In the following excerpt, he examines the relationship of Doctor Faustroll to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's character Faust in order to define Jarry's beliefs about the nature of the artist and the imagination.
