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J W von Goethe, Trans. by Thomas Wayne

Dr. Thomas Wayne is an English Professor at Florida Southwestern State College in Fort Myers, Florida. He has published two translations of Nietzsche’s classics with Algora Publishing, as well as Hermann Hesse’s much-loved Steppenwolf, now followed by Goethe’s Faust. His approach in translating these iconoclastic German powerhouses is to return the juice the authors originally intended, with all their verve and dynamic energy. He brings alive the best of German literature for today’s readers.

Faust

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A Tragedy in Two Parts

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In this fresh new translation of "Faust," the greatest work by Germany's greatest author, Professor Thomas Wayne brings us the immediacy, power, and passion of Goethe in modern language; his translation of Part One and Part Two is probably the most literal as well as literate version in English.

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Part One, the shorter, simpler, more recognized section, contains the Gretchen story and the famous blood pact between Faust and Mephistopheles. Part Two is symbolical, allegorical, and experimental; even Germans find it unintelligible without hundreds of scholarly footnotes, a notion which Goethe himself scorned.Yet Wayne's way is accessible; it conveys the energy and eccentricities of the original without extra obfuscation.the greatest work by Germany's greatest writer, brings us the immediacy, power and passion of Goethe in modern language. Like certain Biblical verses, there are some unexpected word sequences, some thorny twists and turns. But each syllable is measured, hand-picked, important, creating a dramatic poem which resonates for readers today much as it did in the early 1800s when Goethe first wrote it.Poet, playwright, novelist, memoirist, and aphorist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a multifaceted genius, the equivalent of Dante and Shakespeare. He put all he had into his version of Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil for worldly fame and riches. It is a fable for today and every day.