Faust Goethe Johann Wolfgang von
Faust Goethe Johann Wolfgang von "Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat. Greenberg's translation lives; it is done in a modern idiom but with respect for the original text; I found…
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Faust Goethe Johann Wolfgang von
"Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat. Greenberg's translation lives; it is done in a modern idiom but with respect for the original text; I found it a joy to read."--Irving Howe (on the earlier edition)A classic of world literature, Goethe's Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit.
His rendition of Faust is the first faithful, readable, and elegantly written translation of Goethe's masterpiece available in English. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles--dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. At last, the Greenberg