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FAUSTO (Annotated and Bilingual Edition)🥇Best translation

FAUSTO (Annotated and Bilingual Edition)🥇Best translation

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Are you looking for the best translation of Goethe's masterpiece? Look no further! Faust translated by Helena Cortés is the best book you'll find. She is a university professor and Spanish translator specializing in German literature, who won the Goethe International Society Gold Medal in 2021.

With this book, she not only brings us closer to a classic German work, known for its pact with the devil and the representation of human dissatisfaction, but also enriches our understanding through annotations and a detailed introduction.

In addition, it is a bilingual edition, ideal for those who want to compare it with its original German version.

A story like this deserves a translation of its caliber!

💡Why is this the best translation of Faust? The translation by Helena Cortés Gabaudan for Abada publishers has been praised by critics as a literary milestone. Unlike other versions, this edition recovers the original German rhyme and rhythm, while maintaining an astonishing naturalness in Spanish.

As a bilingual edition, you can compare Goethe's original verse by verse with Cortés's work. In addition, it includes a critical apparatus (notes) essential for understanding the depth of the work.

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Synopsis

The wise Doctor Faust, disillusioned with the limits of human knowledge, makes a pact with the demon Mephistopheles: he will surrender his soul in exchange for experiencing the fullness of life, power, and earthly pleasures. This pact drags him on a journey that goes from the tragic seduction of the innocent Gretchen (Margaret) to imperial courts and the mythological landscapes of ancient Greece.

Faust is not just the story of a man; it is a monumental allegory about the eternal human struggle between good and evil, reason and passion, and the insatiable search for meaning in existence.

About the author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Frankfurt, 1749 - Weimar, 1832) is the central figure of German literature and one of the great geniuses of universal literature. He was a true polymath: poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, and statesman. His work ranges from the Romanticism of Sturm und Drang to the Weimar Classicism. His novel The Sorrows of Young Werther made him a celebrity throughout Europe, but his magnum opus, on which he worked for over 60 years, is undoubtedly Faust, a dramatic poem that condenses all the philosophical and artistic ambition of his time.

Technical details

  • Pages: 872

  • Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Publisher: Abada Editores

  • Binding: Paperback

  • Edition: 2021

  • ISBN: 9788419008961

  • Notes: Bilingual edition (German-Spanish), with introduction, annotations, and appendices by Helena Cortés Gabaudan.

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