Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Faust, part 2 - London: Penguin Classics 2009. - xcvi, 285p.: pbk.: 20 cm.

Includes Notes

Faust, Part II
by
Goethe
,
David Constantine (Translator)
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In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his 'imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks'. Further to the themes of redemption and salvation in this great drama, are Goethe's eerie premonitions of modern phenomena such as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis.

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English Literature
Drama
Play
Greek Mythology
Helen of Troy
Romantic Medievalism

832.6 GOE