But there is much more to Goethe's Part One, though notto Gounod's opera, than the Gretchen tragedy~ (Goethe sometimes calls her Margaret) sometimes more affectionately Gretchen~) Uncertainty about the end of GoethelOs Faust is even more widespread, and even those who know that he is saved are frequently unsure about the details. Charles Lamb criticized Goethe, saying: C'What has Margaret to do with Faust?".
Few realize that Gounod's Fatlst is based on the First Part of Goethe's drama, and ignores the Second fewer still that it does not give an adequate idea even of the First Part. Some associate Faust with Marlowe's tragedy or Rembrandt's etching others with Bernoz' ca.ntata Everybody has some idea of both, but few of those who don't read German really know either the poet INTRODUCTION Goethe is generally recognized as the greatest Gerr.han of all time, and Faust as his most important single work. apart one and sections from part two." I. Library.o Goethe's Faust: the original German and a new translation and introduction by Walter Kaufmann.
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Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. WALTER KAUFMANN PART ONE AND SECTIONS FROM PART TWOĪ DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSEl INC, NEW YORKĪnchor Booles Editions, 1963,1990 Copyright ©1961 by Walter K~ufrtlann All rights reserve&u~~~r Intemati0nala:nd Thomas Philosophic Classics: Bacon to Kant Religion from Tolstoy to CamusįAUST THE ORIGINAL GERMAN AND A NEW TRANSLATION AND INTRODUCTlON BY The Portable Nietzsche Judaism and Christianity: Essays by Leo Baeck EDITORĮxistentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre Philosophic Classics: Thales to St. Other Books by Walter Kaufmann: Nietzsche Critique of Religion and Philosophy From Shakespeare to Existentialism The Faith of a Heretic TRANSLATOR AND EDITOR
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