Vox poetae, vox diaboli – considerações sobre o juízo goethiano e a linguagem mefistofélica na primeira parte do Fausto de Goethe

Authors

  • Luciano de Souza Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2015.96784

Keywords:

Faust, Goethe, mephistophelian discourse, authorial stance, German sociocultural context

Abstract

Notwithstanding the fact that the first printed book to mention the legend of Faust was the anonymous text edited by Johann Spiess in 1587, the Faustian theme surely owes its spread and perpetuity in Western imagination to the tragedy written by J. W. von Goethe in the nineteenth century, especially to its first part, published in 1808. Bearing in mind that Goethe admittedly assigns a fundamental role to the demon Mephistopheles when recreating the Faustian myth, this paper aims at interpreting the mephistophelian discourse in Goethian Faust as the vehicle for a critical albeit ironical authorial stance regarding certain aspects of the German sociocultural context in Goethe’s day and age

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Author Biography

  • Luciano de Souza, Universidade de São Paulo
    Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura Portuguesa da FFLCH - USP

Published

2015-12-15

Issue

Section

TECTÔNICAS

How to Cite

Souza, L. de. (2015). Vox poetae, vox diaboli – considerações sobre o juízo goethiano e a linguagem mefistofélica na primeira parte do Fausto de Goethe. Magma, 22(12), 35-50. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2015.96784