Faust

Great Goethe conceived his "Faust" when he was a little more than twenty years, and completed the tragedy a few months before the death. This work has become the result of the philosophical and artistic quest of the author - the poet, playwright, prose, the largest scientist of its time, the person encyclopedic knowledge. The tragedy hero Dr. Johann Faust lived in the first half of the XVI century and heard a magician and a warlock, who, rejecteding modern science and religion, sold the soul to the devil. Oral legends went about Faust, he was the hero of theatrical ideas, the authors were addressed to his image - R. Viman, K. Marlo, F. M. Klinger, E. Lessing and others. Under Feather Goethe, the story about Faust, dedicated to the eternal themes of the knowledge of the life and difficulties of the human path, became one of the tops of world literature