“Linger a while, thou art so fair!”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why It's Lindy
The defining work of German literary culture and the fullest artistic statement of the Romantic era. Nietzsche, Mann, and Jung all orbit around it.
About This Volume
Goethe's Faust — composed across sixty years — is the central work of German literature. In it, the scholar Faust wagers with Mephistopheles that the devil cannot find a moment so perfect Faust would wish it to last. What follows traverses human experience from a young woman's love to the foundations of civilization itself.
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Why should I read Faust?
The defining work of German literary culture and the fullest artistic statement of the Romantic era. Nietzsche, Mann, and Jung all orbit around it.
What is Faust about?
Goethe's Faust — composed across sixty years — is the central work of German literature. In it, the scholar Faust wagers with Mephistopheles that the devil cannot find a moment so perfect Faust would wish it to last. What follows traverses human experience from a young woman's love to the foundations of civilization itself.
