Faust
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.
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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.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385031141 (0385031149)
ASIN: 385031149
Publish date: December 4th 1962
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 503
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Plays,
Drama,
Philosophy,
Poetry,
German Literature
Series: Bloomsbury Children Classics
Czasami bywa tak, że są książki, które pragnie się przeczytać przez bardzo długi czas. I przez ten czas sądzi się, że to jest ten idealny moment na przeczytanie tych słów, jak gdyby kiedy indziej traciły swoją ponadczasową i uniwersalną wartość, jak gdyby za rok miały nie trafić do naszego serca, a ...
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...
Jako lektura prezentuje się naprawdę porządnie. Dużo rubasznego humoru, nie banalnych tekstów itp.
I read this my senior year of high school, borrowed it from my Deutsch IV teacher. We used to have German Club outings (typically bowling), and after everyone would head to Herr Schneider's house for a barbecue of some sort. I'm pretty sure I was his favourite (and not in a creepy way) because I w...
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...
14 years ago
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