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Faust influenced The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Added by Media Influence Map · 6 October 2026
The evidence
A general rather than a specific debt. V.E. Schwab has said she always knew the book would be a Faustian bargain story and drew on the classic depictions of the pact: a young woman sells her soul to a dark god for freedom and pays by being forgotten by everyone she meets.
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