DOCTOR FAUSTUS IN RUSSIAN
MARLOWE, Christopher, and Konstantin BAL’MONT, translator.
Tragicheskaia istoriia doktora Fausta [The Tragedy of Doctor Faust] …
Moscow, K.F. Nekrasov, 1912.
4to, pp. 152; portion of head of title cut away (to remove a signature), else a good copy, untrimmed in the publisher’s printed wrappers, spine worn, front cover abraded to remove a signature.
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Tragicheskaia istoriia doktora Fausta [The Tragedy of Doctor Faust] …
First edition in book form, scarce, of Balmont’s translation of Marlowe’s Faustus, first published over two issues of the journal Zhizn in 1898.
The present edition added Balmont’s translation of a short foreword by Havelock Ellis, and a longer introductory essay by Balmont, ‘O tipe Fausta’, in which he compares Marlowe’s play to the ‘chaos’ of Goethe’s Faust and Faust to the characters of Don Juan and Prometheus.
OCLC shows copies at Cambridge, Yale, Maryland, Wisconsin, and National Library of Israel.
Not in Tarasenkov.
