The influences behind Death Note

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   c. 90 CE

   Gospel of John

   Anonymous

   Early Christian. Roman Asia Minor. Written in Koine Greek.

   The fourth canonical gospel, opening 'In the beginning was the Word' and containing the raising of Lazarus.

   What it handed down

   To Crime and Punishment (1866)

   Direct source, well documented.

   In Part Four Sonya reads aloud the raising of Lazarus from John 11 at Raskolnikov's request, and the passage frames his possible moral resurrection. The copy she reads is the New Testament Dostoevsky was given on his way to Siberian prison, quoted directly in the novel.

   To Faust, Part One

   Direct source, well documented.

   In the study scene Faust sets out to translate the opening of John's gospel, 'In the beginning was the Word', and revises it to 'In the beginning was the Deed'. The poodle that becomes Mephistopheles appears during this act of translation.

   Where it came from

   This is one of the oldest surviving works in its tradition; the line ends here.

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