Faust. Zweiter Teil: Der Tragödie zweiter Teil in fünf Akten (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek)

Von Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Der zweite Teil des Faust-Dramas eröffnet dem Leser einen komplexen thematischen Kosmos: Goethe knüpft an Bilder der griechischen Mythologie an, stellt konkrete Zeitereignisse (Einführung des Papiergeldes) neben phantastische Visionen (Erschaffung des Homunculus).

Text aus Reclams Universal-Bibliothek mit Verszählung der gedruckten Ausgabe.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Reclam Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10. Okt. 2012
• ISBN: 9783159600024

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

<p>Johann Wolfgang Goethe, hijo de una familia de la alta burguesía, nació en Francfort en 1749, y murió en Weimar en 1832, universalmente reconocido y admirado. Entre una fecha y otra no sólo se extienden dos grandes revoluciones históricas, sino que la Ilustración, a través del <i>Sturm und Drang</i> y del clasicismo, ha dado paso al Romanticismo, que marcará el rumbo del hombre moderno. La vida de Goethe no se limitó a ser un reflejo privilegiado de todas estas conmociones, sino que participó activamente en casi todas ellas. Su novela de juventud <i>Las penas del joven Werther</i> (1774) causó sensación en toda Europa. En 1775 se estableció como consejero del duque Karl August en Weimar, ciudad que ya sólo abandonaría ocasionalmente. Un viaje a Italia (1786-88), durante el cual versificó su <i>Ifigenia en Táuride</i> (1787), y la amistad con Schiller moderaron su ímpetu juvenil, asentando el ideal humanista.</p> <p>Del clasicismo de Weimar que constituye una de las cumbres de la literatura alemana. Pero su curiosidad abarcó también la geología, la biología, la botánica, la anatomía y la mineralogía, como se ve en obras como <i>La metamorfosis de las plantas</i> (1790) o <i>Teoría de los colores</i> (1810). Su obra maestra en dos partes, <i>Fausto</i> (1772-1831), aglutina espléndidamente todas las etapas de su carrera. En <i>Poesía y verdad</i> (1811-1830) dejó testimonio de su juventud. Alba ha publicado también, a modo de crónica de su vejez, <i>El hombre de cincuenta años / Elegía de Marienbad</i> (1807; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. LVI) y la narración bocacciana <i>Conversaciones de emigrados alemanes</i> (1795; ALBA CLÁSICA núm.- LXXXV).</p>

Rezensionen für Faust. Zweiter Teil

[danielstj · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

An impressive drama. It was filled, and fused, with so many themes, characters, allusions, references, and poetic prowess. This was Goethe near the height of his powers. I read the drama WAY after reading the first portion, but this did not detract from it at all. Rather, it allowed me to make sense of the first part in relation to the second. The drama spans a wide area of time and there is so much going on, so many great lines and developments, that I could not give this drama any less than four and a half stars. The only detriment is that, in its complexity, I found that some of the prestige is lost. I am nowhere as intelligent as Goethe was and everything that he puts into his book, all combined, mixed, like a concoction of literary material, was at times hard to understand. I read this alongside a guide and I presume that, if I hadn't, I would've become lost along the way.Still, an amazing piece of German literature: 4.5 stars!

[brakketh-1 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

The play/poetic structure didn't really engage me. I think I needed a version with more critical notes throughout as many of the allusions, etc. went right past me.

[thorold_1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Faust II is a work that has defeated me a number of times in the past: I generally get stuck somewhere in Act II where an apparently endless succession of assorted classical entities come on and do their stuff. However, this time I ploughed on regardless, and got all the way through in three or four sittings. It's worth the effort, because you do start to get a feel for where Goethe is going. It's such a big, complicated work that you certainly can't get everything out of it in one reading. It touches on just about every area of knowledge Goethe had a finger in (to put it another way: everything) - philosophy, mythology, music, geology, economics, painting, hydraulic engineering, religion, war, psychology, civil administration, education,... What struck me most on this reading was what an unexpectedly modern work it is. The classical allusions and medieval trappings of the story give you a vague feeling that it must be very ancient, but actually Goethe completed it in 1831. It's very much part of the modern, industrial, capitalist world. Jane Austen was dead, Walter Scott was dying; steam trains were running in England, and would soon be imported to Germany; Bismarck was at school; Alfred Krupp would have been at school if he hadn't been obliged to take over his late father's steelworks; Dickens was a young court reporter, etc. Especially in Act V, where Faust and Mephistopheles have become capitalist entrepreneurs involved in shipping and land reclamation, it becomes very obvious that Goethe wants the reader to see the play in this context. One of the biggest questions he addresses is where we can find a space for humanity and morality in such a world, where we are no longer bound by the traditional constraints of religion, and where growth of power and wealth are the only indicators we measure ourselves against.

[gbill_7 · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

Sequels are never as good as the originals. :-( It may be sacrilege to say it and the books were meant by Goethe to be read as a unified whole, but part two diverges way too far into classical allegory for my tastes. Only for the hardcore. Bring a headlamp and leave a popcorn trail, you might get lost.Just a few quotes:On life; I thought of the mist trail in Yosemite when I read these lines:“And so I turn, the sun upon my shoulders,To watch the water-fall, with heart elate,The cataract pouring, crashing from the boulders,Split and rejoined a thousand times in spate;The thunderous water seethes in fleecy spume,Lifted on high in many a flying plume,Above the spray-drenched air. And then how splendidTo see the rainbow rising from this rage,Now clear, now dimmed, in cool sweet vapour blended.So strive the figures on our mortal stage.This ponder well, the mystery closer seeing;In mirrored hues we have our life and being.”On marital dissatisfaction:“Observe the married creature:There I begin; and can in every caseThe purest bliss by idle whims deface,So varies mood and hour and human nature.And holding in his arms what most should charm him,Each fool will set his dreams on some new yearning;From highest joy, now grown familiar, turning,He shuns the sun, and takes the frost to warm him.With practiced hand I rule in these affairs,And bring in Asmodeus, trusty devil,To sow, when time is ripe, conjugal evil,And thus I wreck the human-race in pairs.”