Faust. Goethe I.V.

Great Goethe conceived his “Faust” when he was a little over twenty years old, and completed the tragedy a few months before the death. This work became the result of the author’s philosophical and artistic searches - the poet, playwright, prose writer, the largest scientist of his time, man of encyclopedic knowledge. The hero of the tragedy Dr. Johann Faust lived in the first half of the 16th century and was known as a magician and a criminal, who, rejecting modern science and religion, sold his soul to the devil. Oral legends went about Faust, he was the hero of theatrical performances, the authors turned to his image - G. R. Vidman, K. Marlo, F. M. Klinger, G. E. Lessing and others. Under Goethe's pen, the story of Faust, dedicated to the eternal topics of knowledge of life and the difficulties of the human path, has become one of the peaks of world literature.