Velikii poet Germanii, vydaiushchiisia myslitel i uchenyi Iogann Volfgang Gete prinadlezhit k tem lichnostiam, kotorymi voskhishchaetsia ves mir. Geroi tragedii "Faust" - lichnost istoricheskaia, on zhil v XVI veke, slyl magom i chernoknizhnikom i, otvergnuv sovremennuiu nauku i religiiu, prodal dushu diavolu. O doktore Fauste khodili legendy, on byl personazhem teatralnykh predstavlenii, k ego obrazu obrashchalis v svoikh knigakh mnogie avtory. No pod perom Gete drama o Fauste, posviashchennaia vechnoi teme poznaniia zhizni, stala shedevrom mirovoi literatury.