POST 9 - YOUR FAVORITE BOOK

Faust

Lately I have read very few books, because I am focused on other things, and because I usually read on trips to university. Since we don't travel by bus now, I don't read much. In those extensive trips to the university I was reading a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe called Faust, at first I bought it because I wanted to learn German and that book had the original writing with the Spanish translation, then I understood that the German of 1800 is very different from the one spoken today hahaha, but it helped me to learn some words.

Faust is a very entertaining and at the same time very philosophical novel, this is because goethe was a writer, poet, playwright and scientist, in an era when science was still considered a philosophy.

Faust was a wise man, he was the God's preferred human. Faust manages to capture Mephistopheles, the devil. This wise man who had achieved a great knowledge in the sciences was desperate to have other knowledge about life itself, so Mephistopheles offered him a deal, in which he was going to show him infinite secrets and knowledge if faust were his servant in the afterlife.

It is interesting that Everything that Faust decided without stopping to meditate on it coldly, or on the occasions when he responded to pure passion, it is understood that the hand of Mephistopheles was behind, as if worldly and pleasant attitudes were always between good and evil, which was a predominant thought in the Catholic religion at that time.

i don´t wan to spoil, at least no more... so i higly recommend this book  that contains poetry, songs that were later musicalized by great music figures such as Shumman or franz liszt,

This book also contains philosophy and a very interesting story.