Faust I & II, Volume 2: Goethe’s Collected Works - Updated EditionOne 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. |
Contents
A Tragedy | 1 |
PART | 13 |
Fausts Study IV 169 | 32 |
PART TWO in Five Acts | 121 |
LABORATORY Creation of Homunculus | 175 |
ClassicoRomantic Phantasmagoria An Intermezzo | 216 |
Act IV | 254 |
Act V | 279 |
BEFORE THE PALACE 281 Fausts Discontent 281 The Destruction | 285 |
Chronology of the Composition of Faust | 306 |
Bibliographical Note | 314 |