Faust I & II pdf

歌德：德国著名作家、小说家、说书人和诗人，对世界文学，尤其是德国文学做出了巨大贡献。约翰·沃尔夫冈·歌德于 1749 年 3 月出生在美因河畔的法兰克福市，父亲是一位坚定而富裕的父亲，父亲要求他学习拉丁语、意大利语、希腊语、希伯来语、法语、英语以及一些音乐和绘画，在除了一些自然科学，比如物理大学，他把他送到了物理大学，但他更倾向于文学研究，开始写诗和戏剧，除了文学他对自然历史和医学感兴趣. 1768年，歌德回到法兰克福，父亲生他的气，送他到斯特拉斯堡大学攻读法学学位，跟随德国著名作家赫尔德进了最高法院，跟随高级法官和结识了一些有权有势的人。 1774 年，歌德结识了魏玛省省长卡尔·奥古斯特公爵，这种友谊得到了加强，直到公爵授予他该省最负盛名的职位之一，并任命他为魏玛最高委员会成员。省，还给他扣了工资和房子。歌德于1786年前往意大利，并在那里呆了大约一年半，他本人认为这次旅行是他人生的转折点。他的个性受到意大利艺术和文学的影响，其中他写了戏剧“伊菲革尼亚”、“埃格蒙特”和“塔索”。歌德从小就受到阿拉伯文学的影响； 23 岁时，他创作了一首赞美先知“穆罕默德”的诗，他与东方、波斯和阿拉伯文学的关系因他而加强，尤其是在 60 岁之后。在那里，他作为翻译学习了“Hafez al-Shirazi”的诗歌，并在一些东方学家的帮助下熟悉了东方的风俗和历史，因为他的阿拉伯语并不流利。歌德有很多著作，其中最著名的有：《维特之忧》、《浮士德》、《西方作家的东方诗篇》、《家谱选》、《塔索》、《情人的任性》。歌德于 1832 年在魏玛的家中去世。

Faust I & II pdf 约翰·沃尔夫冈·歌德

Faust I & II, Volume 2: Goethe's Collected Works

Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over a period of sixty years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. As a drama drawn from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, set in a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions, it can be read as the story of Western humanity striving restlessly and ruthlessly for progress.
Faust is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that communicates both its poetic variety and its many levels of tone. The language is present-day English, and Goethe's formal and rhythmic variety is reproduced in all its richness. With stylistic ease the translation conveys both the sense and the tonal range of the German original without recourse to archaisms or to interpretive elaborations. A short essay affords the reader an understanding of Goethe's considerations as he composed the drama in the course of six decades, and the notes elucidate allusions that may be obscure to an English reader and indicate the significance of metrical features of the text.
This book is part of a projected twelve-volume paperback series that brings into modern English a reliable translation of a representative portion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work. Selected from over 140 volumes in German, this edition is the new standard in English and contains poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, criticism, and scientific writing. The twelve volumes are also available in hardcover, individually or as a set, through Princeton University Press.