by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. Smeed
This is a wonderful play (or rather epic poem as Goethe would prefer). The translation is not disappointing at all. I enjoyed the musicality of the lines and the precision of the words. And more importantly, I enjoyed discovering the meaning this work conveys. There is this wide struggle between go...
This weird, beautiful, complicated play was the work of Goethe's entire life; he wrote it over 60 years, and I doubt he was done when he died. Part II was published posthumously in 1832; it had his, uh, prehumous approval, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't have been happy to spend another ten years...
I won't bother trying to say something interesting about this book. But, I do acknowledge that it wasn't what I expected. The plot was far more dramatic and Faust a more ambiguous, conflicted character for a story that's become such a cultural archetype.
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