Faust, Part One

Select events planned with translators (based in Texas) -Partnership with Goethe Institut in Dallas and nationwide Serial rights targeting The Paris Review, The White Review, Guernica, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, and others Print publicity targeting prominent literary journals and newspaper book sections Promotion at ABA Winter Institute, the American Literary Translators Association Conference, ALA Review copies will be sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets; additional review copies available upon request Promotion on the publisher’s website (deepvellum.org), twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); promotion in the publisher’s e-newsletter

This luminous, timely new translation by renowned co-translators Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, accompanied by original illustrations, brings Goethe’s timeless classic to greater heights than ever before in the English language.The original tale of moral destruction, in a brand-new translation: Faust is a man torn between the urges of the living world and the significance of moral living. He feels nothing, he lives for nothing, and thus engages in a wager with Mephistopheles, the devil himself. Goethe’s master work shares the deep complexity of a human life, rife with pain, mistakes and dynamic complexity. With Faust, the lushly lyrical and philosophically brilliant drama on which the poet spent almost his entire life, Goethe solidified himself as a major literary figure whose work would transcend time and space to create the modern world. Now, this brand-new, dynamic translation demands we ask of our world: who will win, humanity or Mephistopheles?