Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
When his attempts to claim his rights are thwarted by bureaucracy and nepotism, Kohlhaas vows to take justice into his own - increasingly bloody - hands.
This sparkling new translation from Michael Hofmann makes for a fine entry point into Kleist's passionate, grotesque, hysterical, and deeply strange body of work * The New Yorker *
Michael Kohlhaas: a story about bravery and its twin, stupidity -- Roberto Bolaño
The morbid, the hysterical, the sense of the unhealthy, the enormous indulgence in suffering out of which Kleist's plays and tales were mined-is just what we value todayToday Kleist gives pleasure, most of Goethe is a classroom bore -- Susan Sontag
Sometimes you find a brother, and you instantly know that you are no longer alone. I experienced this with Kleist -- Werner Herzog
His sentences are remarkable - great hatchet-blows of thought, an implacable narrative speed, a pulverizing sense of inevitability. No wonder Kafka liked him so much -- Paul Auster
Michael Kohlhaas: a story about bravery and its twin, stupidity -- Roberto Bolaño
The morbid, the hysterical, the sense of the unhealthy, the enormous indulgence in suffering out of which Kleist's plays and tales were mined-is just what we value todayToday Kleist gives pleasure, most of Goethe is a classroom bore -- Susan Sontag
Sometimes you find a brother, and you instantly know that you are no longer alone. I experienced this with Kleist -- Werner Herzog
His sentences are remarkable - great hatchet-blows of thought, an implacable narrative speed, a pulverizing sense of inevitability. No wonder Kafka liked him so much -- Paul Auster
Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He committed double suicide with a terminally ill friend.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784877354 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784877352 |
| Title | Michael Kohlhaas |
| Author | Heinrich Von Kleist |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2021-09-09 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
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