Faust: Part One (The World's Classics)
By Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adapted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greater knowledge; over a period of 60 years he produced one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature. David Luke's recent translation is cast in rhymed verse, following the original, it preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without sacrifice to archaism or over-modern idiom. It is as near an `equivalent' rendering of the German as has yet been achieved.
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- Paperback
- 240 pages
- English
- 0192816667
- 9780192816665
About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
a master of poetry, drama, and the novel, german writer and scientist johann wolfgang von goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem faust , publi Read More about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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