In the second part of Faust, Mephistopheles leads Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, summoning the uniquely beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classic gods. Faust falls in love and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his "artistic desire to poetically unite the romantic medievalism of the German West with the classical genius of the Greeks." Beyond the themes of redemption and salvation in this great drama, there are Goethe's eerie premonitions of modern phenomena such as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis.

Pages: 384, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm