The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

A classic of world literature, Goethe’s ‘Faust’ is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text’s varied metre and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles – dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His rendition of ‘Faust’ is the first faithful, readable and elegantly written translation of Goethe’s masterpiece available in English. At last, the Greenberg ‘Faust’ is available in a single volume, together with a thoroughly updated translation, preface and notes.