Faust: Part Two
Part Two
$25.95
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2008
Summary
Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama. It is conceived as an act of homage to classical Greek culture and inspired above all by the world of story-telling and myth at the heart of the Greek tradition, as well as owing some of its material to the Arabian Nights tales.
The restless and ruthless hero, advised by his cynical demon-companion Mephistopheles, visits classical Greece in search of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199536207 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199536201 |
| Author: | J.W. von Goethe, David Luke |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Faust |
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Critics Review
‘this translation seems to me a major advance on any previous one’Brian Fallon, The Irish Times
‘this translation seems to me a major advance on any previous one’Brian Fallon, The Irish Times’ample and lucid introduction and annotations, which contain some useful maps … By publishing both Luke’s translations and Boyle’s critical masterpiece, OUP has performed an inestimable service to Anglo-German cultural understanding.‘Times Literary Supplement’Oxford, in its superb World’s Classics series, is offering us David Luke’s version of Faust Part Two.‘Albert Manguel, Observer
J.W. von Goethe
David Luke is also the translator of Faust, Part One (1987).
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