Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Goethe even forsees such modern phenomena as inflation and the creation of life by scientific synthesis. But his greatest theme, dramatically represented in the marriage of Faust with Helen of Troy, embodies Goethe's 'imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the Germanic West to the classical genius of the Greeks'.

Translates Goethe's 1774 novel in which a young artist falls for a young married woman and takes drastic measures to relieve the misery of his unrequited love.

Presents the continued journey of Faust as he follows Mephistopheles through the mythology of ancient Greece, becoming enamored of and marrying Helen of Troy while constantly searching to fulfill his appetite for new experiences.

After making a bargain with the devil, Faust is promiseda single moment of utter contentment in exchange for his soul, and after he regains his youth Faust travels in search of all forms of earthly pleasures.