Heinrich von Kleist (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Heinrich von Kleist’s fame as the author of short stories and novellas almost matches his fame as a playwright. The novella Michael Kohlhaas (1810; English translation, 1844), perhaps Kleist’s best-known narrative work, tells the story of a Reformation-era merchant whose thirst for justice becomes an obsession, overturning the social order but never achieving satisfaction. Die Marquise von O——— (1808; The Marquise of O———, 1960), incorporating themes of objective versus subjective reality often found in Kleist’s plays,...
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