WE have seen in a former paper the care with which Goethe has pointed out the way to discover the answer to the question, What is Faust ? In his letters he returns to the subject again and again, ...
Speaking of what Faust is, “ I have,” says Goethe, “ received into my mind impressions, and those of a sensual, animated, charming, varied, hundred-fold kind, just as a lively imagination presented ...
Goethe: His Faustian Life; By A.N. Wilson; Bloomsbury; 416 pp., $35.00 Yet, as theologian Natalie K. Watson recently put it in the Church Times, a British publication, Goethe is likely to be “the ...
Goethe's Faust is a hybrid between a play and an extended poem. The story concerns the fate of Faust in his quest for the true essence of life. Frustrated with learning and the limits to his knowledge ...
to lead them back to God from great Kultur? Could he have on Reb Nahman as his Faust relied, to find for his well-published past a cure, as in Leipzig for his future Werther, loving Gretchen, Schocken ...
Reeling between stylish comedy and gothic horror, Faust, Part 1 tells the story of a famous but unfulfilled scientist who makes a deal with the devil to find passion with a beautiful young commoner.