/lit/ - Literature

>has

Some people haven't read Faust?

>>1509522

reading is one thing...understanding...hmm...

>>1509521

I think you'll find most people here have read it.

I've not read it.

>>1509572
I've read it.

I've read it, also recommended
-The Sorrows of Young Werther (it is only some more than 100 pages and maybe get your tears)

Well, as someone said, you can read a book, but did you honestly understand it? Or did you just read it to say you've read it.

Well, I've seen the opera Faust, by Gounod.

Also, I'm not into romantic litterature, so...

I've read Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, but I have not read Faust.

I've read it in German. Suck it OP.

>>1509631

So have I, you tit.

I haven't read it either

I have read it but didn't understand a lot of it.

I've even read that poem about his penis
Doch Meister Iste hat nun seine Grillen
Und läßt sich nicht befehlen noch erachten,
Auf einmal ist er da, und ganz im stillen
Erhebt er sich zu allen seinen Prachten;
So steht es nun dem Wandrer ganz zu Willen,
Nicht lechzend mehr am Quell zu übernachten.
Er neigt sich hin, er will die Schläferin küssen,
Allein er stockt, er fühlt sich weggerissen.

>>1509523
None is short for not one, and takes the third person conjugation. Lrn2victoriangrammar if you're going to criticize people about it.

ive read it, its very good lol, also try paradise lost aye

If read it, its really good and I would recommand his works to anyone.
You guys should also check out his poems, trully good stuff!

>>1509792
>if
>recommand
>trully

I hope you're not serious.

>>1509959
I hope your not series.

I've read Goethe's version but not Marlowe's. It's glorious, I heartily recommend it to every faggot here. This book will make you into real men, I shit you not.

Faust
Pt.1
>Cool
Pt.2
>WHATTHEFUCKAMIREADING

>>1509965
That's what happens when they're separated by a lifetime of syphilis.

>>1509965

Agreed. Urfaust is unreadable.

What's /lit/'s preferred translation?

>>1510008
The original German.

I've got Walter Arndt's.

>>1509598
>>1509598
>Faust
>Romantic literature

>>1509965
pretty much

OP is a frustrated German teacher that has been trolled by his students and sits home alone thinking he was the only one that is smart...

>>1510113

Nice try, but no. I'm simply amazed that many of you claim to know a lot about literature when little of you have read the book and an even smaller number have grasped what it's saying

>>>1510113

Exactly what proof do you have of the majority of /lit/ not reading Goethe's Faust ?

>>1510347
It's saying "Don't be a dick on the internet".

>>1510353

I am God.

yuh-huh

and yeah, werther's more important to the canon and i prefer wilhelm meister to either

>>1510375
Faust is his Masterwork, man. Werther was the embarrassment.

>>1510375

It's only important for the Sturm und Drang period, not so much the canon. You obviously know nothing of German Literature if you say that.

Goethe is shit-tier...don't see why everyone likes him.

I've read Faust.

the second part was a load of shit. Goethe was trying way too hard.

>Fault

How could the publishers make such an obvious mistake?

I liked the monkeys.

Read it, and Elective Affinities, when I was at university. Still don't understand literature - learning every day.

I do know one thing though - OP is a faggot

>>1511036

monkeys???

>>1511040

>>1511045
Yes. Goethe gives the monkeys get all the best lines.

You don't remember the monkeys? ._.

If you haven't read it in German you haven't read it.

>>1511058

I...don't. Holy fuck what monkeys.

>>1511058
I like the bit where Faust realizes it's a whole planet of talking monkeys. And at the end we see it's really Earth

>>1511064
The monkeys in the Witch's Kitchen, of course.

{He-Monkey}
The world behold;
Unceasingly roll`d,
It riseth and falleth ever;
It ringeth like glass!
How brittle, alas!
`Tis hollow, and resteth never.
How bright the sphere,
Still brighter here!
Now living am I!
Dear son, beware!
Nor venture there!
Thou too must die!
It is of clay;
`Twill crumble away;
There fragments lie.

{Mephistopheles} Stupid fucking monkey.

>>1511072

Thanks, bro. I had completely forgotten but now I remember something faintly. Guess it's time to reread this.

>>1511062

This. Who else would know what "die berühmte Gretchenfrage" is.

>>1511062
Is there a version of weeaboo for Germany? Because your faggot vibes are through the roof.

>>1511133
Neo-Nazi.

>>1511133

Are you honestly suggesting that you can grasp every little detail from a text if you don't read it in its original language? You must be trolling.

>>1511141
If anything they're denying that it is impossible to gain any understanding from a translation.

>>1509521
Surely you jest. Any ass can read a book and pretend they understand it, even if it is in the original language. Shit for brains.