November 5th: Goethe’s Faust

We continue with our Faustian endeavor. If you weren’t present for earlier chapters – quite all right. Each section contains a lot of information, whether taken sequentially or not. This week we read from 311-387 (German pages optional). The present selection includes an excellent scene of brooding in the wilderness, and the long-awaited Walpurgisnacht.

October 8th: Goethe’s Faust

We are doing it. We are reading the famous initial scene from Goethe’s Faust and talking about what it means to be a magician.

Please read the Dedication, pp.64-67, the Prologue in Heaven, pp.82-91, and from The First Part of the Tragedy, the initial scene in Faust’s study, pp.92-124. If you don’t speak German, you will only read half of these pages! Congrats and condolences.

Optional: The Historical Background section of Kaufmann’s introduction, pp.12-21.