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‘From Heaven Through the World to Hell’: Goethe’s Faust as Romantic Hero | Nicolas Krusek

Podcast audio:

Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s dramatic poem Faust is a monumental work of Romantic literature that presents one man’s ceaseless striving to transcend the limitations of human knowledge and experience. By exploring some of the most profound and moving passages from the poem, this talk by Nicolas Krusek provides a glimpse of Goethe’s grand-scale themes and characterizations, and demonstrate the rich rewards to be gained by joining his hero—the “good man” with the “darkling aspiration”—on his quest to discover the “highest wisdom” of life.

Recorded live on June 18 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.

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