Faust, Vol. 1: The First Part (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

9780266238287: Faust, Vol. 1: The First Part (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266238289 ISBN 13: 9780266238287

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Excerpt from Faust, Vol. 1: The First Part

The general conception of the proposed drama, he tells us, lay clear in his mind at an early date; but from the first his procedure was unmethodical. The legend yielded, or could be made to yield, a hint for every mood: poetry, pathos, humor, satire, hocus pocus all were there. And so he worked in a desultory way, writing a passage here and a passage there, now a soliloquy, now a song, and again a bit of dialogue or a succession of dialogues, according as he had caught the vision of this or that interesting situation. Thus, without concern for acts or for a logical develop ment of his plan, he allowed his work to take shape in a series of pictures, leaving the intervals to be filled in by the imagination. In this way a number of pictures (we may call them scenes had been written down previous to his settlement at Weimar in N ovem ber, 1775.

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