Name: Faust: Part 2 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 2) (in English)
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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN: 9780140449020

portada Faust: Part 2 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 2) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Introduction by

David Constantine

Preface by

A. S. Byatt

Publisher

Penguin Group

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.2 x 13.7 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN

0140449027

ISBN13

9780140449020

Edition No.

Synopsis "Faust: Part 2 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 2) (in English)"

In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his 'imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks'. Further to the themes of redemption and salvation in this great drama, are Goethe's eerie premonitions of modern phenomena such as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Poeta, novelista, dramaturgo, científico y político alemán. En la Universidad de Estrasburgo conoció a Herder, quien lo introdujo a las obras de Shakespeare y a quien ayudó después a crear el movimiento romántico alemán Sturm und Drang. En 1775 Carlos Augusto, heredero del ducado de Sajonia-Weimar, invitó a Goethe a vivir y trabajar en Weimar, que entonces era uno de los centros intelectuales y literarios de Alemania. Allí desarrolló una brillante carrera política que finalmente abandonó para dedicarse a viajar y a escribir. Es uno de mayores exponentes literarios del Romanticismo y para muchos el escritor más importante que han dado las letras alemanas.

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