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| Faust, Titelblatt der Erstausgabe (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe monument in Leipzig, Germany. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1787 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/2.1795/s6.html?sort=creationTime#FAZContent
http://www.der-flix.de/english/start.php
http://www.der-flix.de/start.php
Flix is one of
Germany's most well-known
comic-artists. I dig his work a lot. I don't tend to bring examples into class, but that's either due to content, or difficulty of the language.
And really, this is a little far afield for the purpose of this blog, since you probably have to be either a Flix fan, a former
grad student in Germanic Studies, an impassioned lover of
Faust (One and Two, by
Goethe, not the pasty Marlowe version!!), or any combination of the above, to appreciate what the comic artist Flix does in this serialized version of Faust for the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (or: FAZ) one of Germany's most well-known newspapers.
The irony is that he really makes the Faust story accessible to a modern sensibility, and also keeps the language level more modest than not -- but you really have to have a clue about the original to appreciate this, oder? Maybe I'm wrong. And I do sort of wish he had not entitled it: "Who the $#@ is Faust?" It would make it a lot easier if he waited to offend sensibilities within the comic itself!
