He made a pact with the devil. Or perhaps that, too, is only a memory.
A man lies motionless, uncertain of where he is - or even who he is. To make sense of the images flooding his mind, he gives them a protagonist: Faust, a physicist from Hamburg whose marriage to Greta has fallen apart and whose search for meaning leads him to M, an enigmatic stranger promising eternal life.
But the story refuses to stay within the bounds of one lifetime. A train disaster Faust may never have witnessed. Places he may never have been. Lives that might belong to other people. Dr. Rossi, secret laboratories, and Living Forever Inc., a corporation determined to turn immortality into a business.
The fragments begin to form chronicles - yet no one can say whether they are memories, inventions, or glimpses of a future that has not happened.
Who is Faust? The man who lived these stories, the one who tells them - or someone being created by them?
"Living Forever I - The Early Years of Eternity - The Chronicles" opens a modern reimagining of the Faust legend and the first part of a trilogy about love, memory, artificial intelligence, and the uncertain boundary between being human and becoming something else.

Matthias-Johannes Fischer, born in 1959 in Hamburg, has built a career at the intersection of literature, media, and digital communication. After studying literary theory and earning his doctorate with a dissertation on Bertolt Brecht, he worked as a freelance journalist and writer. Later, he co-founded Alpha Entertainment GmbH in Cologne and worked as a film and television producer. With "Living Forever", Fischer returns to literature, pursuing his core belief: "Art is the most powerful way to make sense of our complex present."