
Faust, Part One
A New Translation with Illustrations
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe(Author)
Deep Vellum Publishing
Will be published approx. on 4. March 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-64605-023-9 (ISBN)
Description
The original tale of moral destruction, in a brand-new translation: Faust is a man torn between the urges of the living world and the significance of moral living. He feels nothing, he lives for nothing, and thus engages in a wager with Mephistopheles, the devil himself. Goethe's master work shares the deep complexity of a human life, rife with pain, mistakes and dynamic complexity.
With Faust, the lushly lyrical and philosophically brilliant drama on which the poet spent almost his entire life, Goethe solidified himself as a major literary figure whose work would transcend time and space to create the modern world. Now, this brand-new, dynamic translation demands we ask of our world: who will win, humanity or Mephistopheles?
With Faust, the lushly lyrical and philosophically brilliant drama on which the poet spent almost his entire life, Goethe solidified himself as a major literary figure whose work would transcend time and space to create the modern world. Now, this brand-new, dynamic translation demands we ask of our world: who will win, humanity or Mephistopheles?
Reviews / Votes
"Ozvath and Turner's translation gives modern readers a glimpse of what Goethe's contemporary audience must have felt upon first reading the work. The verse form rhythmically draws us along, singing to us an ancient ballad, while the characters stir our hearts with full-fledged emotions we can recognize in our everyday lives." --The Arkansas InternationalMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Texas
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
No
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64605-023-9 (9781646050239)
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E-Book
11/2020
Deep Vellum Publishing
€9.49
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Persons
Born in 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Goethe gained international fame and renown as a novelist, poet, philosopher, scientist, academic, and statesman. The German philosopher Aether Schopenhauer named Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship one of the four greatest novels ever written, while the American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson selected Goethe as one of six "representative men" in his work of the same name (along with Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Montaigne, Napoleon, and Shakespeare). Deep Vellum published a selection of Goethe's poetry, The Golden Goblet, in 2019.