Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy

Name: Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781585107407
Price: 34.99 NZD
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By Margaret Kirby and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poetic and dramatic masterpiece, masterfully rendered into unrhymed modern English by Margaret Kirby. This translation preserves the original's line structure and the verbal echoes that define the work, capturing its diverse metrical patterns, swift tonal shifts, and a rich blend of comic and tragic elements.
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Ideal for readers interested in classic German literature, poetry, drama, and translations that maintain stylistic integrity.

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While preserving the line structure of the German original and verbal echoes that permeate the poem, Margaret Kirby's translation of Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy attempts to capture in unrhymed modern English the distinctive voices, wide metrical range, quick shifts in tone, comic and tragic registers, and other key stylistic elements of Goethe's greatest poetic and dramatic masterpiece.

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Jane Brown of the University of Washington praises Kirby's translation for its simplicity and clarity, noting it closely mirrors Goethe's German text line for line while successfully evoking the original's dynamic metrical variation.