Faust Parts 1 & 2
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A fresh, performable version by John Clifford of Goethe's 'unstageable' masterpiece.
God and Mephistopheles vie for the mortal soul of Dr Faust. Signing a pact with the nihilistic spirit, Faust is privy to knowledge unbound and sensual delights of which most men can only dream. But before long, the Doctor comes to realise that you should always be very careful what you wish for.
Goethe began working on Faust in about 1772-5. He published a first fragment of it in 1790, then the whole of Part One in 1808. He saw the first performance of Part One in Brunswick in 1829, and was still making minor revisions to Part Two shortly before his death in March 1832.
This two-part English version by John Clifford, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, was first performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in February 2006.
'A thoroughly modern interpretation, a litany of society's soul-selling compromises - sexual commoditisation, academic dumbing-down and capitalistic rapaciousness - that is entirely about today. It's frequently funny but never less than serious' - Guardian
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
<p>Johann Wolfgang Goethe, hijo de una familia de la alta burguesía, nació en Francfort en 1749, y murió en Weimar en 1832, universalmente reconocido y admirado. Entre una fecha y otra no sólo se extienden dos grandes revoluciones históricas, sino que la Ilustración, a través del <i>Sturm und Drang</i> y del clasicismo, ha dado paso al Romanticismo, que marcará el rumbo del hombre moderno. La vida de Goethe no se limitó a ser un reflejo privilegiado de todas estas conmociones, sino que participó activamente en casi todas ellas. Su novela de juventud <i>Las penas del joven Werther</i> (1774) causó sensación en toda Europa. En 1775 se estableció como consejero del duque Karl August en Weimar, ciudad que ya sólo abandonaría ocasionalmente. Un viaje a Italia (1786-88), durante el cual versificó su <i>Ifigenia en Táuride</i> (1787), y la amistad con Schiller moderaron su ímpetu juvenil, asentando el ideal humanista.</p> <p>Del clasicismo de Weimar que constituye una de las cumbres de la literatura alemana. Pero su curiosidad abarcó también la geología, la biología, la botánica, la anatomía y la mineralogía, como se ve en obras como <i>La metamorfosis de las plantas</i> (1790) o <i>Teoría de los colores</i> (1810). Su obra maestra en dos partes, <i>Fausto</i> (1772-1831), aglutina espléndidamente todas las etapas de su carrera. En <i>Poesía y verdad</i> (1811-1830) dejó testimonio de su juventud. Alba ha publicado también, a modo de crónica de su vejez, <i>El hombre de cincuenta años / Elegía de Marienbad</i> (1807; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. LVI) y la narración bocacciana <i>Conversaciones de emigrados alemanes</i> (1795; ALBA CLÁSICA núm.- LXXXV).</p>
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Reviews for Faust Parts 1 & 2
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While I do not care for Goethe, I do like MacDonald's rhyming translation. It makes it much better to get through it! Did this for Part II so that the Kindle could read the rhyming to me with the text to speech feature.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Nederlandse vertaling van begin XXste eeuw, maar niet meer te genieten, zeer archaisch, vooral het eerste deel
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Obviously a classic, but the second scene between the archangles, God and Mephistofoles is pure music.