Goethe's Faust by Frederic P. Miller
A brilliant but discontented scholar, desperate to transcend the limits of human knowledge and experience, makes a pact with a cunning demonic agent who offers youth, power, and worldly pleasures in exchange for his soul; this bargain propels him through intimate tragedy—most notably the ruin of a young woman he loves—and into vast allegorical adventures that probe politics, art, desire, and the nature of redemption. The work contrasts earthly temptation and moral responsibility with a Romantic ideal of striving, ultimately questioning whether human aspiration, even when flawed, can find salvation.
- Published
- 1808
- Nationality
- German
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- German
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- Alternate Titles
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- Faust
- Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil
- Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil
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