Faust

The great Goethe conceived his 'Faust' when he was a little over twenty years old, and completed the tragedy a few months before his death. This work was the result of the philosophical and artistic searches of the author - a poet, playwright, prose writer, the greatest scientist of his time, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. The hero of the tragedy, Dr. Johann Faust, lived in the first half of the 16th century and was known as a magician and a warlock who, having rejected modern science and religion, sold his soul to the devil. Oral legends circulated about Faust, he was a hero of theatrical performances, authors - G.R. Widman, K. Marlo, F.M. Klinger, G.E. Lessing and others addressed his image. Under Goethe's pen, the story of Faust, devoted to the eternal themes of the knowledge of life and the difficulties of the human path, has become one of the peaks of world literature.