Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Goethe - Portrait of the Artist

Ilse Graham - page 318

"These reflections have levered us almost imperceptibly into the heart of the problem with which Goethe grapples in his Faust. Infinite man straightjacketed in a finite garb, faced with the annihilating fact of temporality; this is the beating heart of the tragedy."

From the chapter: The grateful Moment: The Element of Time in 'Faust'

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