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Title: Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ISBN: 0385031149 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: December, 1962 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21
Rating: 2
Summary: A passable attempt
Comment: While the translator deserves praise in his efforts of tackling a difficult work, the result is average at best. The excision of text, as has already been noted by other reviewers, is the biggest reason to avoid this translation, but I will admit that it is perhaps the most accessible and easily read translation available. For those with a serious interest in Goethe and Faust, I would recommend the Walter Arndt/Cyrus Hamlin critical edition from Norton. I believe that to be a much more accurate rendering of Goethe's exemplary work.
Rating: 5
Summary: beautiful book
Comment: This is an absolutely beautiful book; I have read it several times. Kaufmann's translation is certainly the best I have encountered, conveying the rhythmic drive, passion, humor and wit of Goethe's brilliant original German. Reading other translations' stuffy attempts at turning this beautiful play into boorishness and pompous moralizing really makes me wonder why Kaufmann's translation, for all its liberties with the text, has not become THE English version.
Buy this book; but read it a few times before you judge it. You will find it makes far more sense and becomes far more powerful each time you peruse it.
Rating: 1
Summary: An absolute catastrophe
Comment: It is interesting that reviewers appear to be so critical of the translation, ignoring what Goethe himself did to the Faust legend. From the annoying homunculus to the exorbitant Walpurgis Night to the self-indulgent Gretchen 'Travesty,' this is a story that never should have been written, with parts that would have been useless to try to stage. Faust and Mephistopheles were used as tools in a story that Goethe wanted to tell, rather than him telling their story. It is an overwrought nightmare.
The only reason I give it one star is that the site does not permit zero.
Read Christopher Marlowe's version instead.
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Title: Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe ISBN: 0486282082 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Everyman's Library, 183) by Dante Alighieri, Allen Mandelbaum, Alighieri Dante, Dante Alighieri, Peter Armour ISBN: 0679433139 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett ISBN: 0553211757 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Candide by Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, John Butt ISBN: 0140440046 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Sorrows of Young Werther: And, Novella (Vintage Classics) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Elizabeth Mayer, Louise Bogan, W. H. Auden, LuAnn Walther ISBN: 0679729518 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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