Faust, Part One

By Johann Wolfgang van GoetheTranslated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick TurnerIllustrated by Fowzia Karimi Faust, Part One: A New Translation with Illustrations. This luminous, timely new translation by renowned co-translators Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner brings Goethe’s timeless classic to greater heights than ever before in the English language. Publication Date: January 19, 2021 Paperback: 9781646050239eBook: 9781646050246 Description 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 on which the poet spent almost his entire life, Goethe solidified himself as a major litera