The topic of his thesis was the Faust motif in Thomas Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus. This motif is about a person being tempted, by the devil or someone else, to do something bad in exchange for wealth, power or prestige. In his thesis, Bunge compares the Faust motif in Mann’s novel about a composer with earlier examples in literature.
After years of studying, Lucas Bunge (94) has his diploma: ‘My wife said: you just finish it’
