Kleist in Thun (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Walser
- First Published: 1907
- Type of Plot: Biographical
- Time of Work: 1802
- Setting: Thun, Switzerland
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Heinrich von Kleist, Kleist's Sister
- Genres: Short fiction, Bildungsroman, Sketch
- Subjects: Nature, Authors or writers, Writing, Emotions, Depression, mental, Loneliness
- Locales: Switzerland
The Story
The narrator imagines to himself how the Prussian writer Heinrich von Kleist, then twenty-five, might have lived during the spring and summer of 1802 in a villa on a small island in the Aar River near the town of Thun. Kleist's arrival was probably unspectacular: He walked over a short bridge, rang the bell, and someone lazily answered. It was the charming Bernese girl who would become his housekeeper. He is satisfied with the rooms she shows him, but he feels a little sick and wonders why, especially in the midst of such beautiful natural surroundings.
He...
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