Faust, Part One

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 019953621X ISBN13: 9780199536214 Release Date: July 2008 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Length: 240 Pages Weight: 0.40 lbs. Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.8" This new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's Faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature--preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the German ever achieved. The 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) adopted 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. Davi