Categorii: Diverse
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2008
Editura: Oxford University Press
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 240
Colectie: Oxford World's Classics
Traducatori: David Luke
ISBN 10: 019953621X
Titlu Original: Faust
Brand: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199536214
Dimensiuni: l: 13cm | H: 20cm | 196g
The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greater knowledge; over a period of 60 years he produced one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature.
David Luke's recent translation, specially commissioned for The World's Classics series, has all the virtues of previous classic translations of Faust, and none of their shortcomings. Cast in rhymed verse, following the original, it preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without sacrifice to archaism or over-modern idiom. It is as near an `equivalent' rendering of the German as has been achieved.