Bantam Classics 经典系列：浮士FAUST简介，目录书摘

2020-03-23 09:46 来源：京东作者：京东

内容简介:Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe's characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches' Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen's tragic fate.

This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salm's wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe's words.

　　《浮士德》为诗体悲剧，书中描写了主人公浮士德一生探求真理的痛苦经历，反映了从文艺复兴到19世纪初整个欧洲的历史，揭示了光明与黑暗、进步与落后、科学与迷信两种势力的不断斗争。歌德借助浮士德的抱负和追求，表达了他本人对人类未来远大而美好的理想。全书由一系列叙事诗、抒情诗、戏剧、歌剧以及舞剧组成，涉及神学、神话学、哲学、科学、美学、文学、音乐以及政治经济学。

作者简介:Before he was thirty, Goethe had proven himself a master of the novel, the drama, and lyric poetry. But even more impressive than his versatility was his unwillingness ever to settle into a single style or approach; whenever he used a literary form, he made of it something new.
Born in 1749 to a well-to-do family in Frankfurt, he was sent to Strasbourg to earn a law degree. There, he met the poet-philosopher Herder, discovered Shakespeare, and began to write poetry. His play G??tz von Berlichingen (1773) made him famous throughout Germany. He was invited to the court of the duke of Sachsen-Weimar, where he quickly became a cabinet minister. In 1774 his novel of Romantic melancholy, The Sorrows of a Young Werther, electrified all of Europe. Soon as he was at work on the first version of his Faust, which would finally appear as a fragment in 1790.
In the 1780s Goethe visited England and immersed himself in classical poetry. The next decade saw the appearance of Wihelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, his novel of a young artist education, and a wealth of poetry and criticism. He returned to the Faust material around the turn of the century and completed Part 1 in 1808.
The later years of his life were devoted to a bewildering array of pursuits: research in botany and in a theory of colors, a novel (Elective Affinities), the evocative poems of the West-Easters Divan, and his great autobiography, Poetry and Truth. In his eighties he prepared a forty-volume edition of his works; the forty-first volume, published after his death in 1832, was the send part of Faust.
Goethe’s wide-ranging mind could never be confined to one form or one philosophy. When asked for the theme of his masterwork, Faust, he could only say. “From heaven through all the world to hell”; his subject was nothing smaller.

　　约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德，1749-1832，德国小说家，剧作家，诗人，思想家，自然科学家，博物学家，是德国和欧洲最重要的作家之一，也是世界文学领域的光辉人物。其作品充满着狂飙突进运动的反叛精神，在诗歌、戏剧、散文、自然科、博物学等方面都有较高的成就。主要著作有中篇小说《少年维特的烦恼》、诗剧《普罗米修斯》《浮士德》等，还有许多抒情诗和评论文章。