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Original Title:	Erzählungen
ISBN:	0140443592 (ISBN13: 9780140443592)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	M... , North Italy(Italy)

The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

Heinrich von Kleist

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

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Title	:	The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
Author	:	Heinrich von Kleist
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	September 28th 1978 by Penguin Books (first published 1808)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature. Literature. 19th Century

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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.

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In this volume the editors have all eight of von Kleist's canonical stories: (which leaves me wondering about the uncanonical stories) The Duel, The Earthquake in Chili, The beggarwoman of Lacorno, The Foundling, The Betrothal in Santo Domingo, St Cecilia or the power of Music, Michael Kohlhaas, and The Marquise of O. The last two of which I had read and reviewed previously.All of this stories were the same and all of them were different. They are the same in striving to drag the reader into

Where this not German literature I would say this book very much falls into the Gothic category. The stories were full of evil catholics, unwed mothers and unspeakable activities by the church. The style (in translation) seems half way between a William Morris style re-creation of medivael stories and the gothic novels of the 18th and 19th centuries. Some of the short stories are a little odd in places, the timing seemed strange, stories seemed to end abruptly or go on too long in places.

Irreligious, perverse, and shocking even to this day. Von Kleist's discontent with the social structures of his timemost especially the church, the law, and the vagaries of community lifemakes his tales perhaps more politically rich than his contemporary Hoffmann, although both are equally skillful in plumbing the depths of the human psyche when it comes to matters of love, survival, family, and even gender.Von Kleist's style is very proto-modernist: his paragraphs run on for pages with no



Francine Prose raved about The Marquise of O in Reading Like a Writer and I was on the hunt for a copy for months, until I finally found a weathered paperback in a Southern Pines, NC, book store. These stories are unlike any I have ever read. They are suspenseful and simultaneously understated. He'll leave your mind reeling.

read it for Michael Kohlhaas alone: the ultimate terrorist? the ultimate badass? the ultimate proof of the futility of bureaucracy. A story of natural law, human law, alienation and reconciliation.the rest of the stories are okay, but Kolhaas remains my hero forever

Some of the stories were interesting, some others made no sense at all, but then Kleist had to go all White Supremacy and I couldn't deal with him anymore.