Chris_P's Reviews > Faust

Here I am, a speck of flesh and bones in the vast ocean of time, rating and attempting to review this timeless masterpiece of classic literature. I guess artists are doomed to be eternally judged by those to whom their work is exposed, even centuries after their time. You think Goethe even imagined that after two and a half centuries a Greek nobody would "not-talk" about his Faust in a "non-place" called internet? I know I may be getting a bit weird here but hey, I just read Faust. What did you expect?

Anyway, I think it's one of the best literary works ever created. The way Goethe used alternating styles in his writing was genius. The scene on Walpurgis Night is one of the most trippy, psychedelic, out-there things I've ever read. But the most impressive is the concept itself. With the catharsis only foreshadowed but never played before your eyes, you feel in every rhyme that Faust is nothing but a puppet in the hands of (himself?) higher powers. Trapped by his own will to live, to fly high and his tendency to stay stuck on the ground, he becomes a vulnerable victim for our friend Mephistopheles. And a strange journey begins...

Ok, I surpassed myself here. Just one more thing. I'd like to say that reading Faust after midnight by the fireplace with the only source of light being the fire and the lights on the Christmas tree, is one hell of experience!
Cheers!