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Heinrich von Kleist Michael Kohlhaas (Paperback)
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- Michael Kohlhaas
- Publication Name
- Michael Kohlhaas
- Title
- Michael Kohlhaas
- Translator
- Michael Hofmann
- Contributor
- Michael Hofmann (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0811228347
- EAN
- 9780811228343
- ISBN
- 9780811228343
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Absurdist
- Release Date
- 21/04/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8.1in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 4.9 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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Michael Kohlhaas has been wronged. First his finest horses were unfairly confiscated and mistreated. And things keep going worse--his servants have been beaten, his wife killed, and the lawsuits he pursues are stymied--but Kohlhaas, determined to find justice at all costs, tirelessly persists. Standing up against the bureaucratic machine of the empire, Kohlhaas becomes an indomitable figure that you can't help rooting for from start to finish. Knotty, darkly comical, magnificent in its weirdness, and one of the greatest and most influential tales in German literature, this short novel, first published in German in 1810, is now available in award-winning Michael Hofmann's sparkling new English translation.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811228347
ISBN-13
9780811228343
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22038687829
Product Key Features
Book Title
Michael Kohlhaas
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Absurdist
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.1in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
4.9 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Pt2378.M62h64 2020
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Michael Kohlhaas could be called a pathology of obsession, or a juridical riddle, or even a kind of magnificent taunt, though none of these is right, or right enough. One must merely read it, and then read it again, staggered by its sheer acceleration, its furious savagery, its vertiginous authority, its exquisite prolongment of closure as event follows improbable event. Kohlhaas is one of literature's eternal characters because he outpaces any interpretive framework. His indomitable reality exceeds our own., A masterwork--at once a savage indictment of a corrupt legal system and an object lesson in the ways that all-out combat can ignite from the most picayune personal slights. In Michael Hofmann, whose own writing style is frenetic and steeply erudite, the novella may have found the perfect translator. Absurdities compound with a devil's logic that presages Kafka (who adored the book)., The most inscrutable of all Kleist's works, newly translated by the incomparable Michael Hofmann. Set in the sixteenth century, the book follows its namesake, a petty horse trader who grows enraged when a nobleman subjects him to a minor injustice. Kleist's sentences, hypnotic and exquisitely controlled, span entire pages, rippling into ever wider and ever dreamier rings., It is this critical combination of fiction and philosophy that accounts for Kleist's enduring originality and Michael Kohlhaas's appeal to writers like Walser and Kafka. Despite the novella being set amid the tumult of the German Reformation, Kleist's portrait of a man 'in the Hell of unsatisfied vengeance', beset on all sides by bureaucratic obstacles and governmental corruption, possesses a stubborn timelessness., What revolted the mature Goethe in the young Kleist, who submitted his works to the elder statesman 'on the knees of his heart'--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 is a classroom bore., Kleist's two abiding concerns, politics and metaphysics, come together powerfully in Michael Kohlhaas, his longest and best-known narrative, which now appears in a lively new translation by Michael Hofmann., Heinrich von Kleist is one of the great neglected figures of European literature. His work is at once tragic, grotesque, hectic, tender, hilarious and heartbroken, a powerful current in that underground of European literature that includes Holderlin, Buchner, Diderot, Kafka, Rilke, Witold Gombrowiez, Thomas Bernhard, Paul Celan, Samuel Beckett, upon many of whom Kleist had a direct influence. His work is peculiarly apt for our fractured times, and speaks in a voice which, despite the occasional High Romantic inflection, sounds startlingly modern., His sentences are remarkable--great hatchet-blows of thought, an implacable narrative speed, a pulverizing sense of inevitability. No wonder Kafka liked him so much..., Sometimes you find a brother, and you instantly know that you are no longer alone. I experienced this with Kleist., Kleist is a great master. He wrote a kind of chronicle fiction which to this day dazzles me as no other., "Perhaps the strongest of all German stories. Michael Kohlhaas seems to me to have a peculiar resonance to the present time, when apathy toward the law, callousness toward injustice, a limp acceptance of "the way things are" exercise a paralyzing influence all over the world. Kleist shows us, incidentally, with a superb, mordant humor, the predicament into which a society accustomed to constant abuse of the law is thrown by a man who refuses to put up with such abuse; how his associates gradually withdraw from the doltish robber baron who created the whole mess--with whom they would have continued to get along easily had it not been for the unpleasant consequences of his insolent act... We are filled with anxiety and terror, shudder in the face of mystery, doubt in the powers of reason, and, indeed, in the power of God himself--all our 'affects are confounded.' Kleist knows how to put us on the rack and--such is his triumph as an artist--succeeds in making us thank him for that torture.", I did not write to you last night, it got too late because of Michael Kohlhaas (have you read it? If not, don't! I shall read it to you!); apart from a short section which I had read the day before, I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time. This is a story I read with true piety; it carries me along waves of wonder., Kleist tells you what sort of people his characters are--often impetuous, wrongheaded, overly emotional, but essentially good at heart--and lets them run around the narrative at the speed of windup toys. He has no time for their motives, nor do they, as they struggle, like the reader, to keep up with the pace at which one surprise follows another.
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