LIBRARIES of commentary in every European language have grown up around the unsolved enigma, What is Faust? and still we seem in need of some more definite solution of the problem. Learned and ...

WE have seen in a former paper the care with which Goethe has pointed out the way to discover the answer to the question, What is Faust ? In his letters he returns to the subject again and again, ...

It's sometimes complicated to understand or discuss terms like Classicism or Romanticism, especially for someone who is not involved in literature. But that's not the case with Mª Gemma Romero Perea, ...

Its redemptive ending inspired Mahler to mind-blowing music, Gounod wrote one of the greatest soprano roles for its tragic heroine, and some of us first encountered it via Tintin, but, argues AN ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic drama continues to fascinate literature lovers. Why does the German play remain relevant today? Goethe's "Faust," one of the greatest works of German literature, ...

The new contemporary edition of Goethe's "Faust" is the fruit of almost ten years of labour. The team of Fotis Jannidis, a computer philologist and Professor of Literature at the University of ...