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503 page Doubleday Anchor paper back book by Goethe
- Sales Rank: #1724881 in Books
- Published on: 1963
- Binding: Paperback
- 503 pages
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Faust a Must-read
By steve schulte
A timeless and entertaining classic. Filled with deeply inventive and psychological scenarios. An important book.
Steve Schulte
Los Angeles
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The ENGLISH-GERMAN Faust TRANSLATION...and it rhymes.
By W.T.Hoffman
This was the version of FAUST which I ate up in High school, college, and the rest of my life, leaving my copy literally in TATTERS! First, the translater, KAUFMANN, produced this verse translation in Princeton University, finishing it around 1960. The New York Times loved it, and of course, it would take a lot of german knowledge, and poetic knowledge, and english mastery, to make ANY translation, let alone a verse translation that attempts to hold onto Goethe's rhymne skemes, and his sense, and double entendres. The consenses was that KAUFMANN had done this, with his translation. The German is on one page, and the english translation on the facing page, for easy comparison. How much of FAUST is translated in this book? Well, actually, just FAUST PART ONE, and the last part of FAUST PART TWO, beginning at the FIFTH ACT. (If you have never read Goethe's FAUST PART TWO completely, well, lets just say it doesnt have the STURM UND DRANG that Part one has. In fact, its filled with neo-classical wierdness, and a bit boring. But, the ending is good, cos after all... Faust gets saved, when he finds his satisfaction in life, building dikes for the Dutch. ) As for this translation, now that I know german well enough, to follow whats going on, and know poetry well enough, to see the OPTIONS that Kaufmann had when he translated, I have found at times, that Kaufmann could have made better translation choices, or poetic choices, at times. BUT, could anyone have made a better verse translation, of the entire book, which kept to the MEANING and VOCABULARY of the original? Maybe not, but if they did, just research the various translations, until YOU find what YOU like. I found "MY" translation here. The nice thing about a dual language version of this particular masterpiece, is that if you have ANY german knowledge, you can read most of the german book for yourself. The German that Goethe used at times, is very archaic, and often german vocabulary is employed, which is not found even in a very good english-german dictionary. (For example, Goethe using the word DIRNE, for GIRL. The word is unknown to nearly all germans, altho it was still in regional usage, in some areas of Northern Germany, well into the 1940s.) Other times, Waltmann's translation DOES seem very modern. After all, he was a philosopher, and had also translated tons of Nietzsche's works. So, he could read FAUST with complete facility, something that many germans today can not do. (I was surprised to learn this, but I think it might be analogous to the typical high schooler trying to understand SHAKESPEARE, without many words translated into modern english.) So, for the translated FAUST, I always loved this book, ESPECIALLY because the poetic splendor is kept in place, along with the sense.
Now, a word, about the book's EXTRAS. The foreword of the book deals with the beginning of the FAUST legend, from the very eary days of the FAUST CLAP BOOKS, which told of an old, late mideaval professor named JOHANN FAUSTUS, who taught at Wittemburg University, and had made a pact with the devil. These clap books, (like renascence paperback novels) made it over to England, where Marlowe read them. Then, Marlowe produced DOCTOR FAUSTUS based on the old legend. THEN, Dr. FAUSTUS became a huge hit, and as it went back to Germany, Marlowe's work was watered down into a puppet play, which was also a big hit. It was as a child, that Goethe saw FAUST first performed as a puppet play. Later, Goethe wrote his first draft, the URFAUST, when he was in his early 20s. Goethe worked on FAUST parts ONE AND TWO his whole life, just finishing the last lines of PART TWO, only days before his death, when he was in his 80s. SO, a life's work done by Germany's top literary GENIUS. FAUST ought to be read by ALL educated people around the world, just as HAMLET, or CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, and other of the great books that formed the western mindset. The introduction goes IN DEPTH, with the way FAUST has moved thru the western world, and compares the various translations, and the various reactions to the text. (For instance, there has always been a big controversy over the brawdy language between Mephistopholes, and the witch, during the WALPURGIS NIGHT scene. Goethe had to remove some letters from a line that read, THE DEVIL F***S THE WITCH, which was suppose to read THE DEVIL FARTS ON THE WITCH, but of course, the same word for copulation fits into F***S in German, as would in English. Its hard to figure out why a few letters are missing from the German version, without that juicy bit of creative censorship being revealed, of course.) Anyway, reading the backround to the creation of one of the greatest masterpieces of human creativity, is well worth every page devoted. How many pages might that be? The intro lasts about 50s pages. THEN, we get right into the bilingual FAUST PART ONE, and ending of PART TWO. Even now, reading the german, and then the english, I find both fascinating, and impossible to put down. FAUST is a blast to read, unlike Homer, or Virgil. Goethe had a VERY modern mind, and so he still amuses. If anyone is bilingual in German and english, but has ENGLISH has their mothertongue, you MUST read Faust with the German and English side by side. This way you wont need to look thru huge GERMAN dictionaries, to find the rare words, and archaic meanings. You get SO MUCH MORE of the poetry, the depth and mastery of language, when Goethe is given his due, by reading FAUST in german. Even if you DONT know german, the original german language STILL sounds so beautiful, as you read it.
AND ONE LAST CONSIDERATION! Since my book has literally fallen apart, I went to AMAZON to find another bilingual edition. Unfortunately, THIS IS IT! (As far as I could find, at least.) You buy this book and enjoy it, or just forget it, and buy a German version, and an English version, and try to get them to line up, as well as another book for introductory information. Kaufmann's translation of GOETHE"S FAUST is not just ONE book, but THREE BOOKS for the price of one. I dont know WHY there are no bilingual versions of FAUST. I can only surmise, that since German is rarely offered in High schools, and colleges, that there is no demand. Not only that, but bilingual books that ARE produced, dont try to give us such difficult literary works, but rather, "easy modern novels" in bilingual versions. ITs sad. So, do you want to try and read FAUST in German, but need a helping hand, for the rough parts? HERE YOU GO. (Haben Sie Mut! Sie Koennen es tun.) Alles Gute!
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5 stars for Part I; for excerpts from Part II, rather less
By G.C.
First, about having Part I complete in this volume, my praise will be short, simply that it is terrific to have the whole of Part I available, with the original German and Kauffmann's English translation facing each other. On this, I have no reservations.
Now, on to Part II, or rather, the extremely abridged Part II. I should first note that I've never read any other version besides Kaufmann's, so in that sense, I literally do not know what I've missed. (I've heard a live radio version from the BBC, which had more context in Part II, to be sure.) While I can accept the commentary from Kaufmann that Part II is overlong and could do with trimming for more general readers, just by my own gut feeling here, Kaufmann cut too much. Even with Kaufmann's very concise summary of the missing sections in the foreword, from reading these selections from Part II, in this version, it feels much too short and without any context. I could easily have dealt with twice as much more material to give a little more context for Part II. Maybe Part II is so sprawling that there is no context as such, but I just really felt short-changed in reading these selections from Part II. There's nothing wrong about the quality of Kaufmann's translations, not at all. It's just that Part II, a little more would not have gone amiss.
So if you're going to buy this, please be aware of what you'll get, namely Part I in all its glory, and Part II in much rather less than that, even with the famous final scene included intact.
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