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What's the best edition of Faust?

>> No.13441499

>>13441496
In English? Bayard Taylor's translation.

>> No.13441505

>>13441499
Yes english. Thanks :)

>> No.13441509

Anyone want to explain why Faust is not overrated ?
I could not find anything super amazing in it? Only read part one tho.

>> No.13442750
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David Luke's translation

>> No.13442878

i dont want to be mean, but you can not read translated poetry, what the fuck.

>> No.13442908
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David Duke's translation

>> No.13442942

>>13442878
>I'd rather never read a work than read it with a slight loss of fidelity.

>> No.13442948

>>13441496
The german one

>> No.13443935

>>13442878
They read translated Shakespeare, why can't I read translated Goethe?

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My dad's personally illustrated DDR version

>> No.13444028

>>13443935
reading translated poetry is like having a stature im miniature.
You will the the essence, but all the greatness is lost.

>> No.13444037

>>13441496
The Maturin one

>> No.13444056

>>13443935
>They read translated Shakespeare
no we don't. we either read the original, or we don't read it at all. there are thousands of german literary masterpieces, we don't have to settle for a fucking translation