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The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

Heinrich von Kleist

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 2051 Users | 110 Reviews

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Title	:	The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
Author	:	Heinrich von Kleist
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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Original Title:	Erzählungen
ISBN:	0140443592 (ISBN13: 9780140443592)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	M... , North Italy(Italy)

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Ratings: 3.95 From 2051 Users | 110 Reviews

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I loved this story as well as many others. A master storyteller of immense integrity.

This rating is a compromise. The Marquise of O is one of those stories that, despite one's effort to suspend modern sensibilities, is horrible and incomprehensible -I hated it and found its assumptions upsetting. The Earthquake in Chile, on the other hand, is horrible and completely comprehensible - it shows both the highs and the lows of how people behave in the face of catastrophe.

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.

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

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

Guys. Guys. I have a confession.I think I suck at pre-20th century literature.Once upon a time, not that very long ago, in an ivory tower, I got it. You know? GOT. IT. Could whip you out an essay about an obscure Elizabethan play, no problem. Could participate in class discussions about religion and, you know, religion, because apparently that's all anyone ever wrote about before 1900.Context is everything. While reading these "short" stories, I tried to put myself in the time period (brutal