Faust (set in 2 volumes). Goethe I.

The tragedy of I.V. Gete Faust occupies a special place in world culture. The legend of the scientific doctor who laid Mephistopheles in exchange for his promise to devote to the secrets of the universe, to show the abyss of paradise and hell, to enrich new knowledge, and had long excited human imagination. The genius of Goethe managed to build Faust into a symbol of all mankind, eagerly looking for truth and directed forward. The search for the meaning of being, the eternal desire of a person to penetrate the secret of the structure of the universe, the confrontation of a contemplative and active attitude to life is raised here to the question of the possibilities of the human mind and moral boundaries of the permitted. it in 1917 a prize named after A.S. Pushkin of the Academy of Sciences. The publication is accompanied by circumstances and articles by the famous Germanist Mark Bent, a biographical article about Kholodkovsky, specially prepared by Alevtina, by order of the publishing house Vita Novova. The publication first plays illustrations by G.A.V. Tart Anno, on which artists have been working for more than ten years.