Goethe!

Ok, so i havent posted in ages. I've been busy, but thats not an excuse, just an observation.

I finished reading Faust today, while sitting in the Staff Club at university drinking a flat white. I was so engrossed in the last three or four scenes that my coffee grew cold, forgotten on the table in front of me. It's a freaking fantastic play though. I can imagine that it would be incredibly difficult to stage in a realistic way as its so fragmented and 'snapshot' like. I wonder if this leads to a load of minimalist and/or avant garde stagings that people dislike...? I guess the scenery isnt really the most important thing, but still, to see some of the play's fantastic feats performed on stage would be amazing! I would so love to see it performed in Germany!

One of the cool things that i noticed while i was reading it was just how 'human' Goethe's writing is. Its not a grandiloquent tome of Aufklärung philosophy, but a deepy affecting and human tragedy, interspersed with slang, terribly offensive language, in-jokes for Goethe's contemporaries, not to mention fantastic rhyming verse and amazing prose.

Anyway, yes... i could waffle for ages, but i wont as i have to write an essay on it later this week and dont want to talk myself out prematurely. I am definitely going to read more Goethe when i get time though! I think i will read Die Leiden des jungen Werther next, although i probably wont have time until after exams.. oooh im excited though :D