The Marquise Of O And Other Stories
Von Kleist Heinrich
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Penquin Books
Publisher Place: Harmondsworth
Publisher Year: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Description: 319 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.
Publishers Description: 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 with 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.
ISBN: 0140443592
(116237)
