Goethe's Faust

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Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2000-11-16
Publisher(s): Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary

Randall Jarrell's translation of Goethe's classic, illustrated with extraordinary new drawings by Peter Sis Randall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook: "Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest"), and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of his "own favorite daemon, dear good great Goethe." His intent was to make the German poetry free, unrhymed poetry in English. He all but finished the job before he died, and the few lines that remained untouched--Gretchen's Spinning Song--were rendered into English by Robert Lowell. This elegant new edition features numerous beautiful line drawings by the renowned Czech artist, Peter Sis, author of the award-winning books The Starry Messenger and Tibet: Through the Red Box.

Author Biography

Randall Jarrell (1914-65) was a prolific poet, critic, and translator. His Complete Poems are available from FSG.

Table of Contents

Dedication 3(2)
Prelude at the Theater 5(8)
Prologue in Heaven 13(10)
Night (Faust's Monologue)
23(21)
Outside the City Gate
44(18)
Faust's Study (The Exorcism)
62(16)
Faust's Study (The Contract)
78(28)
Auerbach's Cellar in Leipzig
106(23)
The Witch's Kitchen
129(18)
A Street
147(6)
Evening
153(7)
Promenade
160(4)
The Neighbor's House
164(13)
A Street
177(4)
Garden
181(11)
A Little Summerhouse
192(3)
Forest and Cavern
195(8)
Gretchen's Room (Spinning Song)
203(2)
Martha's Garden
205(9)
At the Well
214(4)
The City Wall
218(2)
Night
220(11)
Cathedral
231(4)
Walpurgis Night (Harz Mountains)
235(23)
Walpurigs Night's Dream (The Golden Wedding of Oberon and Titania)
258(11)
Dreary Day
269(4)
Night, Open Country
273(2)
Dungeon
275(14)
Afterword Faust and Randall Jarrell 289
Mary von Schrader Jarrell

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