Heinrich Von Kleist
Praise for Michael Kohlhaas
This sparkling new translation from Michael Hofmann makes for a fine entry point into Kleist's passionate, grotesque, hysterical, and deeply strange body of work
The New Yorker
Michael Kohlhaas: a story about bravery and its twin, stupidity
Roberto Bolaño
The morbid, the hysterical, the sense of the unhealthy, the enormous indulgence in suffering out of which Kleist's plays and tales were mined-is just what we value today. Today Kleist gives pleasure, most of Goethe ...
Susan Sontag
This sparkling new translation from Michael Hofmann makes for a fine entry point into Kleist's passionate, grotesque, hysterical, and deeply strange body of work
The New Yorker
Michael Kohlhaas: a story about bravery and its twin, stupidity
Roberto Bolaño
The morbid, the hysterical, the sense of the unhealthy, the enormous indulgence in suffering out of which Kleist's plays and tales were mined-is just what we value today. Today Kleist gives pleasure, most of Goethe ...
Susan Sontag
This sparkling new translation from Michael Hofmann makes for a fine entry point into Kleist's passionate, grotesque, hysterical, and deeply strange body of work
The New Yorker
Michael Kohlhaas: a story about bravery and its twin, stupidity
Roberto Bolaño
The morbid, the hysterical, the sense of the unhealthy, the enormous indulgence in suffering out of which Kleist's plays and tales were mined-is just what we value today. Today Kleist gives pleasure, most of Goethe ...
Susan Sontag