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Very curious info about the genesis of part 2…being purposefully posthumously published as the masses really wanted to know how it ended, yet it’s critically regarded as inferior to the first part - seemingly because Goethe did not have time to edit as ferosciously as he did with part 1. The summaries of the scenes are interesting but mean nothing to me!

This introduction is fascinating! It’s really setting up the hugeee piece of literature that is Faust. I had no idea that Goethe wrote this for all people. It’s been completely restricted to the German PhD students! Love him he seemed fierce