The Marquise of O and Other Stories by Heinrich von Kleist, David Luke (Translator), Nigel Reeves (Translator), Nigel Reeves (Introduction)
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- Pub. Date: September 1978
- 320pp
- Sales Rank: 99,240
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 1978
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Paperback, 320pp
- Sales Rank: 99,240
- Series: Penguin Classics Series
- ISBN-13: 9780140443592
- ISBN: 0140443592
Synopsis
From 'The Marquis of O--', in which a woman is made pregnant without her knowledge, to the vivid and inexplicable suffering portrayed in 'The Earthquake in Chile', his stories are those of a man swimming against the tide of the German Enlightenment, unable to believe in the idealistic humanism of his day, and who sees human nature as irrational, ambiguous and baffling. It is this loss of faith, together witrh his vulnerability and disequilibrium, his pronounced sense of evil, his desperate challenge to established values and beliefs, that carries Kleist more forcefully than Goethe or Schiller across the gap between the eighteenth century and today.
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Marquise of O and Other Storiesby Anonymous
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August 28, 2003: I read this book (or at least the 'Marquise of O- portion) for my honors english class in college. For only 45 pages or so, its suprisingly deep. However the author doesn't bog you down in wordy language but rather gives you time to think about the message it is conveying. For only about a day or two's worth of reading, I would definitely recommend it.
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