This book is a translation of Goethe's Faust Part One and presents themes of human ambition and dissatisfaction. The story follows Faust, a scholar, who, frustrated by the limits of traditional knowledge, enters into a pact with Mephistopheles, the devil. Faust trades his soul for unlimited knowledge and power, and the two embark on a journey to satisfy Faust's unquenchable thirst for experience. A central figure in Western literature, Faust's quest for enlightenment, and the Faustian bargain he makes, epitomizes themes of knowledge acquisition, the intellectual temptations that come with it, and the profound consequences of our desires and choices.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a towering figure in German literature, was the author of "The Sorrows of Young Werther, Faust, Italian Journey, The Theory of Colours" (MIT Press edition, 1970), and many other works.
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