Faust

Before you is an illustrated edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe''s tragedy "Faust" in Afanasy Fet''s classic translation. This translation, on which the poet worked for over twenty years, combines precision and poetry, capturing the rhythm and depth of the original—from Gretchen''s lyrical songs to the cosmic visions of the Prologue in the heavens, from the crude humor of the student scenes to ...