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Work InformationFaust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author) (1808)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Goethe's Faust doesn't work on the page. And doesn't work on stage in the two productions I've seen. Arguably its most successful dramatic realisation is Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust. Having read Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe I thought I would try a more modern translation from the painfully archaic Victorian version I read a long time ago. The Oxford World Classics version has a solid introduction and helpful notes by the translator, David Luke, but his verse translation if anything renders the drama even more ponderously than I recall. So read it in German, I suppose, if my German ever manages to make that an even vaguely realisable option. I cannot help but feel though there is a mythical status about this work which is not earned. ( ) The first of Goethe's two Faust plays is a surprisingly disordered, lewd, and at times hopelessly obscure play. The title character makes a deal with the devil--shenanigans and tragedies ensue. It introduced me to a new piece of folklore--the Brocken witches--to enchant my life or whatever. It gave me Proktophantasmist, which my Oxford edition kindly explained. So what if the scene order doesn't always make narrative sense? no reviews | add a review
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"Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such as Dante's Inferno and Shakespeare's Hamlet. This is the first new translation into English since David Constantine's 2005 version. Why another translation when there are several currently in print? To invoke Goethe's own authority when speaking of his favorite author, Shakespeare, Goethe asserts that so much has already been said about the poet-dramatist "that it would seem there's nothing left to say," but adds, "yet it is the peculiar attribute of the spirit that it constantly motivates the spirit." Goethe's great dramatic poem continues to speak to us in new ways as we and our world continually change, and thus a new or updated translation is always necessary to bring to light Faust's almost inexhaustible, mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power. Eugene Stelzig's new translation renders the text of the play in clear and crisp English for a contemporary undergraduate audience while at the same time maintaining its leading poetic features, including the use of rhyme."-- No library descriptions found.
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