Faust

Doktor Iogann Faust – lichnost' ne tol'ko legendarnaya, no i istoricheskaya: uchenyy vrach ili mag-chernoknizhnik, sharlatan i plut, zhivshiy v 16 veke v Germanii (za davnost'yu let podrobnosti ego biografii ostayutsya neizvestnymi). Ostalis' zapisi o zagadochnoy smerti Fausta, yakoby ubitogo demonom Mefistofelem. Pod perom Ioganna Vol'fganga Gete srednevekovaya legenda prevratilas' v velikuyu tragediyu o celi chelovecheskogo bytiya, o poiske smysla zhizni. Seriya: Vsemirnaya literatura (novoe oformlenie).