Michael Kohlhaas
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Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
Based on actual historic events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridged the gap between medieval and modern literature, and speaks so profoundly to the contemporary spirit that it has been the basis of numerous plays, movies, and novels. It has become, in fact, a classic tale: that of the honorable man forced to take the law into his own hands. In this incendiary prototype, a minor tax dispute intensifies explosively, until the eponymous hero finds the forces of an entire kingdom, and even the great Martin Luther, gathered against him.
Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), one of Germany's most enigmatic and celebrated authors, was an aristocrat by birth, a rebel by inclination, a Romantic by temperament, and a stylist of uncompromising rigor whose writings in multiple modes, including drama, fiction, and expository prose, have grown all the more pertinent over time. Kleist lived a restless, roving life, serving stints as a soldier, a bureaucrat, a prisoner, and an unsuccessful newspaper editor. Finding himself in financial straits and personal despair, Kleist, together with his terminally ill lover, committed suicide near the Wannsee in Berlin in 1811. Recipient of the 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year, Peter Wortsman is the author of A Modern Way to Die: Small Stories and Microtales, the plays The Tattooed Man Tells All and Burning Words, the recent memoir Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray, and the forthcoming novel Cold Earth Wanderers. His translations from the German include Robert Musil[s Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, Heinrich Heine[s Travel Pictures, Peter Altenberg[s Telegrams of the Soul, and Tales of the German Imagination: From The Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, an anthology published by Penguin Classics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780976140726 |
| ISBN 10 | 0976140721 |
| Titel | Michael Kohlhaas |
| Autor | Heinrich Von Kleist |
| Serie | Art Of The Novel |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Melville House Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2005-04-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 144 |
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