Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 13:11:47 +0100
From: "Joerg T. Gruel" <jtg-AT-owl-online.de>
Subject: PLC: Faust without Lederhosen




For all those who are eager to read about the Doctor Faustus,
but are not inclined to do so "in the original", there's good
news: I've just found a Web site called
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe that comprises an
overwhelming edition of Marlowe's Faustus, and its major source.
I got there by a link from the Perseus site, on which others may
comment.

In this context, I can't help and recommend another
lederhosen-free version of the Faust tale (or is it a myth?
Pygmalion?), by US-citizen Thomas Mann, the "Doktor Faustus". To
give a general idea (forgive me, Stirling!), it's a "Nietzsche
novel", or "The German Catastrophe". Thomas Mann, BTW, seems to
have been a private monster and tyrant, much in the way in which
he has depicted Goethe, e. g. in "Lotte in Weimar", a wonderful
book, full of melancholic irony.

By all of which I don't mean to insinuate  that Goethe would don
Lederhosen (not even Heidegger might have made him do so);
rather, he preferred Calabresian hats, and the Werther outfit.

Cheers,

Joerg
"Liebe vergeht - Schweinsleder besteht" (ETA Hoffmann)

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In this context, I can't help and recommend another lederhosen-free version of the Faust tale (or is it a myth? Pygmalion?), by US-citizen Thomas Mann, the "Doktor Faustus". To give a general idea (forgive me, Stirling!), it's a "Nietzsche novel", or "The German Catastrophe". Thomas Mann, BTW, seems to have been a private monster and tyrant, much in the way in which he has depicted Goethe, e. g. in "Lotte in Weimar", a wonderful book, full of melancholic irony.

By all of which I don't mean to insinuate  that Goethe would don Lederhosen (not even Heidegger might have made him do so); rather, he preferred Calabresian hats, and the Werther outfit.

Cheers,

Joerg
"Liebe vergeht - Schweinsleder besteht" (ETA Hoffmann)
 
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