Faust I & II-浮士德I&II

作者：Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

书名：Faust I & II《浮士德I&II》

中文简介：浮士德（Faust、Faustus）是欧洲著名作家歌德的作品名称及人物。原型参考了普鲁士自然科学家亚历山大·冯·洪保德。作品中的浮士德是个学识渊博，精通魔术的人物，为了追求知识和权力，向魔鬼作出交易，出卖了自己的灵魂，于生命的最后时刻，领悟了人生的目的。

英文简介：Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. Faust and the adjective Faustian imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term.The Faust of early books—as well as the ballads, dramas, movies, and puppet-plays which grew out of them—is irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge; "he laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of Theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of Medicine". Plays and comic puppet theatre loosely based on this legend were popular throughout Germany in the 16th century, often reducing Faust and Mephistopheles to figures of vulgar fun. The story was popularised in England by Christopher Marlowe, who gave it a classic treatment in his play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. In Goethe's reworking of the story two hundred years later, Faust becomes a dissatisfied intellectual who yearns for "more than earthly meat and drink" in his life.