!bookworms our second bookclub reading after The Master and Margarita is Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Goethe was the German equivalent of Shakespeare and Cervantes, so translations probably don’t do justice to the original. However some translations are better than others, which ones you guys suggest?
I recommend reading about Goethe, he had a fascinating life and was probably one of the most interesting figures of his period.
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Do we need to agree on a translation? We're not doing line-by-line analysis. Plus, it might be fun to compare translations.
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Yeah, maybe that should work, but what are the best translations?
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Arndt - Critical
Kaufmann - Accessible
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