| | What I'm reading *
I've always read. While growing up, reading was a refuge when I found life too unpleasant or stressful. Consequently I've bought a lot of books over time as well.
Now that I'm no longer in the rich corporate phase of my life I've rediscovered the library. Dayton's library may be maligned by some but is still a great resource. One type of book I like to read is gay fiction and I was surprised to see a lot of it in the Dayton library's catalog. Plus you can even ask them to buy particular titles, and they will!
Below you can see the five most recent books either that I'm reading or that I've acquired. You can search my books, or you can see all my books. Also my classes page has links back to this page for the books for each class.
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Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
| 2004-08-26 | 3150052734 | Urfaust | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang | GER361 | | | This is the version specified for class, chosen by Dr. Schellhammer because it is cheap. Intended for native German speakers, this edition has no notes or additional material apart from a brief Afterword. The version I found in UD's library is more user friendly for non-native speakers given its introduction, footnotes, glossary and appendices. | | 2004-08-20 | 0393044246 | Faust | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (Walter Arndt, trans.; Cyrus Hamlin, ed.) | | | | We're not reading Faust for GER361 but rather "Urfaust," Goethe's earlier version of the story, but since I've never read Faust I found this English translation of it in the UD library. A Norton edition, it includes many notes and others sources, such as an article about translation and comments from Goethe's notes and letters about Faust. | | 2004-08-20 | | Urfaust: Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust in its original version (1775) | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (R.H. Samuel, ed.) | GER361 | | | This is one of the books we're reading for my Survey of German Literature class at UD this semester. The bookstore doesn't have it yet, and I couldn't find the version specified by the professor on Amazon.com, but I did find this older (too old for an ISBN) version in the library at UD.
Although the text is in German, this version has an interesting preface and introduction as well as appendices and vocabulary in English. I'd heard of Goethe's Faust, of course, though I haven't read it yet, but I'd never heard of there being a previous or original version of it.
I also looked for an English translation of "Urfaust," but not finding one, I checked out a translation of the later and complete Faust. | |
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