Faust, Part I
the First Part of the Tragedy
$25.42
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2005
Summary
A major new translation by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine that captures the lyrical liveliness of Goethe’s original.
Goethe’s Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he fal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449013 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140449019 |
| Author: | Goethe, David Constantine, A.S. Byatt |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Faust |
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” One of those great works of literature into which a writer has been able to combine his ranging preoccupations and understanding as he worked.” -A. S. Byatt, from the Preface
” One of those great works of literature into which a writer has been able to combine his ranging preoccupations and understanding as he worked.”
-A. S. Byatt, from the Preface
About The Author
Goethe
David Constantine is a poet, novelist, biographer, playwright and translator. He has taught German at the Universities of Durham, Oxford and Rutgers, New Jersey and is currently Visiting Professor in the School of English at the University of Liverpool. He lives in Oxford and (with his wife the translator Helen Constantine) is joint editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. His book of poetry Something for the Ghosts was short listed for the 2002 Whitbread Prize and his translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s Lighter than Air, won the Corneliu Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation in 2003.
A S Byatt, novelist, short story writer, and critic, is the author of many books including Possession, winner of the 1990 Booker Prize; Babel Tower; The Biographer’s Tale; and The Whistling Woman. She was appointed DBE in 1999.
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