Heinrich von Kleist
The Biography. Translated from German by Sebastian Goth and Kelly Kawar
By (author) Günter Blamberger
Hardback (Published)
(July 2021)
ISBN: 9783770565740
6.1 x 9.25 inches
Price: $65.00
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Kleist has fascinated readers like no other German writer. How did a one-time soldier with an unremarkable literary education become one of the greatest innovators of German literature? What allows for the tragedy of his life? In what ways does his work speak to us today? In his great biography Gunter Blamberger gives us a new Kleist: Unlike conventional approaches, he does not try to understand Kleist’s life from the perspective of its end-from the perspective of his suicide as the final catastrophe of a life in permanent crisis. Rather, he remains at eye-level with Kleist’s present, narrating from the perspective of Kleist’s experience-in the moment with him-capturing the unsettling or the astonishing in each phase of his life, the explosive nature of each one of his risky experiments in living and writing. The result is an indispensable work of German literary history-a vivid, captivating biography of one of the greatest literary geniuses of all time.
Günter Blamberger, born 1951, is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Cologne, where he directs the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities as well as the International Festival for World Literature, Poetica. He has served as President of the Heinrich-von-Kleist-Society since 1996 and has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature since 2015. His Kleist biography was chosen by the jury of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association as the top nonfiction title in the humanities of 2011.
- By (author) Günter Blamberger
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