Title: "FAUST. A Tragedy" Part One and Two

("ФАУСТ Трагедия" Часть Первая и Вторая)

Author(s)/Editor(s): Johann von Goethe, translated by Afanasy Fet and illustrated by Engelbert Seibertz (Гёте, перевод А. Фета, с рисунками Энгельберта Зейбертца)

Language(s): Russian (Русский)

Publisher: "A. F. Marx" (Издание "А. Ф. Маркса")

Place: St. Petersburg, Russia (С.-Петербург, Россия); Year: 1899

Pages: 172 , 218 + XXIX; Cover: Hardback; Sizes: 34.5 (W) x 43.5 (H) cm (huge size)

Condition: Good Antique Condition: Long time ago its original cover was replaced with red color hard cover. Some stains/spots. Minor crack on hinge. Some guard sheets are missing or torn. Overall, internally clean; well kept and well preserved pages. For more information regarding book's condition- check provided images or ask us.

Item's Code: XR-1931

ABOUT:

Very rare and unique, 1899, limited and luxury huge size edition of Johann von Goethe's "Faust" and and includes part one and part two, also a part with an explanation of part 2. Translated into Russian by Afanasy Fet. With 25 (full-page) beautiful illustrations (engravings) by Engelbert Seibertz .

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature.The earliest forms of the work, known as the Urfaust, were developed between 1772 and 1775; however, the details of that development are not entirely clear. Urfaust has twenty-two scenes, one in prose, two largely prose and the remaining 1,441 lines in rhymed verse. The manuscript is lost, but a copy was discovered in 1886.The first appearance of the work in print was Faust, a Fragment, published in 1790. Goethe completed a preliminary version of what is now known as Part One in 1806. Its publication in 1808 was followed by the revised 1828–29 edition, the last to be edited by Goethe himself.Goethe finished writing Faust Part Two in 1831. In contrast to Faust Part One, the focus here is no longer on the soul of Faust, which has been sold to the devil, but rather on social phenomena such as psychology, history and politics, in addition to mystical and philosophical topics. The second part formed the principal occupation of Goethe's last years. It appeared only posthumously in 1832.

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Роскошное старинное издание «Фауста» Иоганна Вольфганга Гёте в переводе Афанасия Афанасьевича Фета (1820-1892) и знаменитых гравированных иллюстрациях немецкого художника Э. Зейбертца (Engelbert Seibertz 1813-1905), Настоящее издание выпущено в 1899 г., формат большой (энциклопедический). 
Помимо множества иллюстраций и виньеток в тексте, издание украшено отдельными 25 листами гравюр немецкого художника Энгельберта Зейбертца, исполненных в технике гравюры А. Шлейхом (Adrian Schleich 1812 – 1894) и М. Шторцем (Martin Storz, р. 1816). Медные гравированные пластины для этого издания в Париже. Для печати гравюр использована бумага высшего качества, специально изготовленная фабрикой К. П .Печаткина в Красном селе. Наборный шрифт специально отлит в «Словолитнях О.И. Леман» в Петербурге. Данное издание, выпущенное знаменитым русским издательским домом А.Ф. Маркс, - одно из лучших русских изданий «Фауста».

Легенда о Фаусте и «Фауст» Гете самое известное художественное произведение, созданное на основе народной средневековой книги «История доктора Иоганна Фауста», занимает особое место в истории человечества.

 

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ADDITIONAL INFO

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (/ˈɡɜːrtə/; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn ˈɡøːtə] (About this sound listen); 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His works include epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe was a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. His first major scientific work, the Metamorphosis of Plants, was published after he returned from a 1788 tour of Italy. In 1791, he was made managing director of the theatre at Weimar, and in 1794 he began a friendship with the dramatist, historian, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, whose plays he premiered until Schiller's death in 1805. During this period, Goethe published his second novel, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, the verse epic Hermann and Dorothea, and, in 1808, the first part of his most celebrated drama, Faust. His conversations and various common undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have, in later years, been collectively termed Weimar Classicism. Arthur Schopenhauer cited Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship as one of the four greatest novels ever written, along with Tristram Shandy, La Nouvelle Héloïse, and Don Quixote, and Ralph Waldo Emerson selected Goethe as one of six "representative men" in his work of the same name, along with Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Michel de Montaigne, Napoleon, and William Shakespeare. Goethe's comments and observations form the basis of several biographical works, most notably Johann Peter Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe.

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet (Russian: Афана́сий Афана́сьевич Фет, IPA: [ɐfɐˈnasʲɪj ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈfʲɛt] (About this sound listen)), later known as Shenshin (Russian: Шенши́н, IPA: [ʂɨnˈʂɨn] (About this sound listen)); 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1820 – 3 December [O.S. 21 November] 1892), was a renowned Russian poet regarded as the finest master of lyric verse in Russian literature.

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Иога́нн Во́льфганг Гёте (с 1782 года фон Гёте, нем. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe немецкое произношение имени (инф.); 28 августа 1749, Франкфурт-на-Майне — 22 марта 1832, Веймар) — немецкий поэт, государственный деятель, мыслитель, философ и естествоиспытатель.

Гёте творил в разных жанрах: поэзия, драма, эпос, автобиография, эпистолярия и др. Гёте стал главным идеологом течения «Бури и натиск». Вместе с Шиллером, Гердером и Виландом он создал так называемый Веймарский классицизм. Роман Гёте «Вильгельм Майстер» заложил основы воспитательного романа эпохи Просвещения. Произведения Гёте, в особенности трагедия «Фауст», признаны шедеврами немецкой и мировой литературы.

Наследие философа и поэта хранится и изучается в Архиве Гёте и Шиллера в Веймаре.

Афана́сий Афана́сьевич Фет -родился (23 ноября [5 декабря] 1820, в усадьбе Новосёлки, Мценский уезд, Орловской губернии — 21 ноября [3 декабря] 1892, Москва) — русский поэт-лирик и переводчик, мемуарист, член-корреспондент Петербургской АН (1886). 

Tags : Russia, Russian, Russians, USSR, Soviet, Lenin, Stalin, CCCP, Rusko-, red army,

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