How Long to Read The Faust-legend and Goethe's Faust

By H. B. Cotterill

How Long Does it Take to Read The Faust-legend and Goethe's Faust?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 17 minutes to read The Faust-legend and Goethe's Faust by H. B. Cotterill

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

But I will not inflict upon you any further description of my tusslings with Teutonic interpreters of Faust-with their egos and non-egos, their moral-æsthetic symbolisms and so on. Let us leave them to the tender mercies of Goethe himself, who was not sparing of his ridicule in regard to his commentators, nor, alas, at times in regard to his countrymen. 'Of all nations, ' he says, 'the Germans understand me least.... Such people make life a burden by their abstruse thoughts and their Ideas, which they hunt up in all directions and insist on discovering in everything.... They come and ask me what "Ideas" I have incorporated in my Faust. Just as if I myself knew!-or could describe it, even if I did know!' Of course Goethe's great poem contains an Idea, if by that word we mean in a poem what we mean by life in anything living; but it is not by dissection and analysis that we shall discover it. 'He who wishes, ' says Goethe in Faust, 'to examine and describe anything living first does his best to expel the life. Then he has got the dead parts in his hand; but what is wanting is just the spiritual bond.' It is my purpose-a purpose not easy of fulfilment-to avoid this method of dissection and to place before you living realities, not anatomical specimens.

How long is The Faust-legend and Goethe's Faust?

The Faust-legend and Goethe's Faust by H. B. Cotterill is 76 pages long, and a total of 19,456 words.

This makes it 26% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Faust-legend and Goethe's Faust Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 46 minutes to read The Faust-legend and Goethe's Faust aloud.

What Reading Level is The Faust-legend and Goethe's Faust?

The Faust-legend and Goethe's Faust is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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