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Title: The Marquise of O--, and Other Stories by Heinrich Von Kleist, Heinrich Von Kleist, David Luke ISBN: 0-14-044359-2 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: What in the world is wrong with the world?
Comment: I absolutely refuse to believe that I am the first person to review this book. It being one of the most innovative and (truly) groundbreaking collection of short stories in the German literary canon, and influencing massively such big shots (probably with lots more reviews) as Kafka and Deleuze, you will forgive a little cognitive dissonance on my part. So, that being noted, I'll just reiterate what all the other reviewers have already said:
Kleist balances on a fragile strand of (in)sanity that slides lengthwise throughout these stories, not a one of them failing to reinvent the wheel--not only formally but substantively, as it behooves us readers to admit on the double. Don't let the cover fool you either... I did, for a long time, and there should be a dead lady's freaked-out ghost surrounded by three brothers with empty eyes, chanting the 'gloria in excelsis,' all backed by a burning castle with mutilated horses. I'm referring specifically to three stories in this collection---and only three---but there are far more mind-benders, crude and massive explosions of language, and just ouright amazing plots to all of them, that my skimpy comments can do no sort of justice to them. But that's o.k., because you can look at all the other reviewers for more informative responses.
Truly disturbing, truly maddening, truly genius. Kleist notoriously blew his brains out in 1811, after shooting another woman in an altogether fitting (yes, fitting...read and see why) suicide pact formed by Kleist in order to stick one last finger up at the world that had robbed him of his "lifeplan" as a rational youth. The world, that is, responsible for his "madness" (yeah right) and these stories, which clearly many of us have taken great pleasure in absorbing. The world, responsible for his funked up play Penthilesia, which Goethe avoided like the plauge, and for which Kleist had to be physically restrained from challenging the man to a duel.
If so many people hadn't reviewed this already, I tell you, I may have agreed with him about this absurd world. Thank God he was wrong!
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Title: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa ISBN: 0140248927 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Life With a Star by Jiri Weil, Rita Klimova, Roslyn Schloss ISBN: 0810116855 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende ISBN: 0553273914 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1986 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Very Easy Death by Simone De Beauvoir ISBN: 0394728998 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1985 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Threepenny Opera, The by Bertolt Brecht ISBN: 1559702524 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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