The original tale of moral destruction, in a brand-new translation: Faust is a man torn between the urges of the living world and the significance of moral living. He feels nothing, he lives for nothing, and thus engages in a wager with Mephistopheles, the devil himself. Goethe's master work shares the deep complexity of a human life, rife with pain, mistakes and dynamic complexity. With Faust, the lushly lyrical and philosophically brilliant drama...

Faust: A Tragedy (German: Faust. Eine Tragödie), or retrospectively Faust. Der Tragödie / erster Teil) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. It was first published in 1808. The first part of Faust is not divided into acts, but is structured as a sequence of scenes in a variety of settings. After a dedicatory poem and a prelude in the theater,...

La presente obra reune la correspondencia completa que intercambiaron estos dos emblemáticos personajes, Goethe y Schiller, a lo largo de once años. El trabajo de traducción que ofrecen Marcelo Burello y Regula Rohland de Langbehn nos abre al mundo de la literatura germana, contextualizando cada epístola con anotaciones sumamente cuidadas. "El oportuno encuentro de nuestros dos ingenios ya nos ha proporcionado varias ventajas, y espero que esta...

The Golden Goblet traces Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poetry from the idealism of youth to the liberation of maturity. In contrast to his rococo contemporaries, Goethe's poetry draws on the graceful simplicity of German folk rhythms to develop complex, transcendent themes. This robust selection, artfully translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, explores transformation, revolution, and illumination in Goethe's lush lyrical style that...

Exceptionally fine poetry by Germany's greatest literary figure spans a wide range of styles, forms and moods, offering a rich selection of the poet's verse - from his earliest, "An den Schlaf" ("To Sleep"), written when he was 18, to his last great poem, "Verdächtnis" ("Legacy"), written when he was 80.

"Último grande poema dos tempos modernos", no dizer de Otto Maria Carpeaux, o "Fausto" de Goethe está para a Modernidade assim como "A Divina Comédia" de Dante para a Idade Média. Representa não só a obra máxima de seu autor, mas a suma do conhecimento e das aspirações de sua época.

Extrait : "Que je suis aise d'être parti ! Ah ! mon ami, qu'est-ce que le cœur de l'homme ? Te quitter, toi que j'aime, toi dont j'étais inséparable ; te quitter et être content ! Mais je sais que tu me le pardonnes. Mes autres liaisons ne semblaient-elles pas tout exprès choisies du sort pour tourmenter un cœur comme le mien ? La pauvre Léonore !"