Heinrich von Kleist was een dramaturgo, schrijver, tekstschrijver en publicist wiens werken diep ingaan op de menselijke psyche en irrationaliteit. Zijn schrijfstijl verkent vaak thema's als dood, verlangen en de onvermijdelijkheid van het lot, waardoor intense emotionele landschappen voor de lezer ontstaan. Kleists onderscheidende stijl wordt gekenmerkt door dramatische spanning, plotselinge wendingen en krachtige dialogen die de innerlijke onrust van zijn personages onthullen. Zijn literaire bijdragen bieden een uniek perspectief op een turbulente tijd en de rusteloze aard van het menselijk bestaan.
A reprint of the J M Dent edition of 1997. Heinrich von Kleist was born and grew up in the Enlightenment and died in a suicide pact in 1811, aged only thirty-four. He left behind him literary works which are among the most disturbing and amusing of any produced in that revolutionary and romantic period.
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One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles.
"Das Käthchen von Heilbronn" is a historical play by Heinrich von Kleist, featuring five acts. It tells the story of Theobald Friedeborn, who accuses Count vom Strahl of using magic to abduct his daughter Katharine. As the plot unfolds, it is revealed that she willingly followed the Count.
'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz Kafka MICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE WILL HAVE JUSTICE. Based on the real life of an ordinary horse-dealer cheated by a government official, Michael Kohlhaas is the darkly comical and magnificently weird story of one man's alienation from a corrupt legal system. When his attempts to claim his rights are thwarted by bureaucracy and nepotism, Kohlhaas vows to take justice into his own - increasingly bloody - hands. Will he be remembered as a dangerous enemy of the peace, or a vigilante hero? Praised by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Susan Sontag, Roberto Bolaño, Werner Herzog, and J. M. Coetzee, this is one of the most influential tales in German literature. In this vital new translation by the renowned poet Michael Hofmann, Kleist's bizarre, brutal and maddening story is urgent today.
