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Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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Description for Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised
paperback. Presents a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. This book creates the text's varied metre and rhyme and also its diverse tones and styles - dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. Translator(s): Greenberg, Martin. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 30. Weight in Grams: 578.
A classic of world literature, Goethe's Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles-dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His rendition of Faust is the first faithful, readable, and elegantly written translation of Goethe's masterpiece available in English. At last, the Greenberg Faust is available in a single volume, together with a thoroughly updated translation, preface, and notes. Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent ... Read more
A classic of world literature, Goethe's Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles-dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His rendition of Faust is the first faithful, readable, and elegantly written translation of Goethe's masterpiece available in English. At last, the Greenberg Faust is available in a single volume, together with a thoroughly updated translation, preface, and notes. Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300189698
SKU
9780300189698
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About Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist, playwright and politician. Martin Greenberg is best known for his translations of Goethe and von Kleist. He won a citation from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and received the Harold Morton Landon Verse Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets. W. Daniel Wilson is Professor ... Read more
Reviews for Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised
Greenberg is quite remarkable, and at his best truly brilliant, in evoking the poetic `feel' of Goethe's original. I do not believe that any other version of Faust has attempted anything quite like it. -Cyrus Hamlin, Yale University (on the earlier edition of Part One) Goethe's Faust is an enigmatic and perhaps barely translatable masterpiece. Its grotesque and ... Read more