Questa monumentale tragedia esplora le profondità dell'animo umano attraverso la storia di un uomo che stringe un patto con il diavolo alla ricerca della conoscenza e della realizzazione assolute. L'opera affronta profonde questioni filosofiche sul senso della vita, sulla natura del bene e del male e sull'essenza dello sforzo umano. Dai dilemmi intensamente personali a grandiosi scenari storici e mitologici, questa epopea offre un'avvincente esplorazione dell'eterna ricerca della trascendenza.
Flix ist zweifellos einer der produktivsten und kreativsten deutschen Zeichner der Gegenwart. Kaum hatte er die Arbeiten an seinem deutsch-deutschen Werk DA WAR MAL WAS... abgeschlossen, begann er, für die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung einen klassischen Dramenstoff umzusetzen: den FAUST von Goethe. Die Rahmenhandlung, der Wettstreit zwischen Gott und Mephisto, ist geblieben, doch Heinrich Faust ist Student vieler Fächer und... Taxifahrer in Berlin. Die vorliegende Graphic Novel enthält die komplette Geschichte in überarbeiteter Form und bietet sowohl für FAUST-Liebhaber als auch für Comic-Fans eine vergnügliche Lektüre.
The second part of Goethe's masterpiece opens with Faust struggling to recover from the death of his beloved Gretchen. The quick-witted demon Mephistopheles soon persuades him to look beyond his sorrow and enter the world of politics and power, but the great scholar is still eager for new sensations, and asks Mephistopheles to reveal Helen of Troy to him in a vision. Overwhelmed by her beauty, Faust demands she be brought back from the underworld - but even this fails to bring him contentment, and his appetite for knowledge remains unsated. Completed a few months before Goethe's death, this rich and allusive work weaves together a wealth of diverse philosophical ideas and influences, reworking the medieval myth of Dr Faustus and speculating upon the search for truth in the Age of Enlightenment.
De figuur Faust is gebaseerd op de historische dokter Johannes Faust. De historische Johannes Faust werd ca. 1480 in Knitlingen in Duitsland geboren. Hij stierf rond 1536 in Staufen. Hij reisde rond als arts, astroloog en magiër. Zijn toverkunsten en horoscopen waren vaak aanleiding om hem uit de stad te verjagen. Al tijdens zijn leven ontstonden er mythische verhalen rond zijn persoon, die door de duivel zelf - aan wie hij zijn ziel verkocht had - gewelddadig om het leven zou zijn gebracht. Hij werd een bron van inspiratie voor bijvoorbeeld Christopher Marlowe, Johan Wolfgang von Goethe en Thomas Mann. Goethes Faust behoort tot de meest vertaalde werken van de wereldliteratuur: de bibliografie brengt het tot duizend titels, verdeeld over vijftig talen. Onder de Nederlandse vertalingen nemen die van het eerste deel door Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema (1911) en van het tweede door Nico van Suchtelen (1920) een vooraanstaande plaats in.
Das Werk von Goethe, „Faust I und II“, fasziniert seit fast 200 Jahren und hat Generationen bewegt. Erhard Eichhorn hat es über zwölf Jahre hinweg kalligraphisch abgeschrieben, wobei er alte und moderne Schriftarten sowie englische Übersetzungen kombiniert hat. Diese besondere Ausgabe ermöglicht eine neue, faszinierende Entdeckung des Meisterwerks.
One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man’s pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions. What results is a tour de force illustrating Goethe’s own moral and artistic development, and a symbolic, cautionary tale of Western humanity striving restlessly and ruthlessly for progress. Capturing the sense, poetic variety, and tonal range of the German original in present-day English, Stuart Atkins’s translation presents the formal and rhythmic dexterity of Faust in all its richness and beauty, without recourse to archaisms or interpretive elaborations. Featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this Princeton Classics edition of Faust is the definitive English version of a timeless masterpiece.
Als Albrecht Schönes Edition von Goethes Faust 1994 im Deutschen Klassiker Verlag erstmals erschien, war das Echo einhellig: ein Meisterwerk der Goethe-Philologie mit bahnbrechenden Erkenntnissen für Text und Kommentar. Im Laufe von über 20 Jahren wurde diese Ausgabe vom Herausgeber mehrfach an den jeweils aktuellen Forschungsstand herangeführt. Die nun vorgelegte 8. Auflage bietet nach der Revision von 2005 mit einer Fülle von Funden, Ergänzungen, Erweiterungen und Aktualisierungen eine grunderneuerte und abschließende Fassung aus der Hand des Herausgebers.
German playwright Goethe's magical Faust tale is known across the world. In
this acclaimed translation, Goethe's play has been translated by Scottish
playwright Robert David MacDonald. This version is studied widely as it opens
up the extraordinary range and pace of Goethe's language, rhythms, imagery and
ideas, without sacrificing any humor.
Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over a period of sixty years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. As a drama drawn from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, set in a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions, it can be read as the story of Western humanity striving restlessly and ruthlessly for progress. Faust is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that communicates both its poetic variety and its many levels of tone. The language is present-day English, and Goethe's formal and rhythmic variety is reproduced in all its richness. With stylistic ease the translation conveys both the sense and the tonal range of the German original without recourse to archaisms or to interpretive elaborations. A short essay affords the reader an understanding of Goethe's considerations as he composed the drama in the course of six decades, and the notes elucidate allusions that may be obscure to an English reader and indicate the significance of metrical features of the text. This book is part of a projected twelve-volume paperback series that brings into modern English a reliable translation of a representative portion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work. Selected from over 140 volumes in German, this edition is the new standard in English and contains poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, criticism, and scientific writing. The twelve volumes are also available in hardcover, individually or as a set, through Princeton University Press.
Goethe’s Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction. The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.
