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Original title isbn 9780140443592 published on 1808. Like much of kleists fiction, this work is suffused with ambiguity, irony, paradox, and impulsive, erotic passion. Mit dem autorenportrat aus dem metzler lexikon weltliteratur. And although the baffled marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her. Vollstandige neuausgabe mit einer biographie des autors. And although the baffled marquise has no idea when this happened, she must. The stories the marquise of o and the earthquake in chile both record the hardships two women undergo when they find themselves pregnant out of. Today the work lays claim to being one of the greatest pieces in the entire canon of german short fiction, a. The marquise of o and other stories penguin classics. Project gutenberg offers 62,017 free ebooks to download. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project.
These dark stories explore the themes of human depravity as well as the wrath of mans judgment. The marquise of o and other stories penguin classics pdf free. Wortsman preserves much of kleist s difficult sentence structures and punctuation, and succeeds at modernizing kleist s sometimes antiquarian prose. They are all characterized by an extraordinary economy, power, and vividness and by a tragic subject matter in which men are driven to the limits of their endurance by the violence of.
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