{"title":"Books by Heinrich Von Kleist","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780872207431","title":"Kleist: Selected Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eAiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most ambitious of its kind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295493632373,"sku":"9780872207431","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780872207431_568f3b21-f187-40b1-9cf8-474378c403f3.jpg?v=1786016140"},{"product_id":"9781784877354","title":"Michael Kohlhaas","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz Kafka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE WILL HAVE JUSTICE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on the real life of an ordinary horse-dealer cheated by a government official, \u003ci\u003eMichael Kohlhaas\u003c\/i\u003e is the darkly comical and magnificently weird story of one man's alienation from a corrupt legal system. When his attempts to claim his rights are thwarted by bureaucracy and nepotism, Kohlhaas vows to take justice into his own - increasingly bloody - hands. Will he be remembered as a dangerous enemy of the peace, or a vigilante hero?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraised by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Susan Sontag, Roberto Bolaño, Werner Herzog, and J. M. Coetzee, this is one of the most influential tales in German literature. In this vital new translation by the renowned poet Michael Hofmann, Kleist's bizarre, brutal and maddening story is urgent today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305449271669,"sku":"9781784877354","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784877354_7172db02-2f14-40b1-9886-8df6be0adc6b.jpg?v=1786025631"},{"product_id":"9781843682547","title":"Lives of Caspar David Friedrich","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), one of the great visionaries of European art, spent all his life in Northern Germany, apart from four years studying in Copenhagen, and his output appears to consist almost entirely of German landscapes. But far from being parochial, he was, in the words of the French sculptor David d’Angers, the artist who ‘discovered the tragic in landscape’. His paintings assemble minutely observed elements of nature into compo­sitions that celebrate the riches and the melancholy of a cosmos fully imbued with the divine, while never losing an almost hallucinatory engagement with reality. For all their clarity, they are the quintessence of Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost too familiar today, to Friedrich’s contemporaries these extraordinary paint­ings were astonishing and challenging. This volume records the reactions of some of the most prominent figures of German Romanticism: Kleist, Brentano and Arnim (in a witty series of dialogues between gallery visitors alternately bewitched and bewildered by Friedrich’s \u003cem\u003eMonk by the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e), the painter and physiologist Carus, the psychologist Schubert, the Russian poet and translator Zhukovsky. A piece by Goethe and his colleague Heinrich Meyer records the somewhat baffled admiration of the earlier generation; and Friedrich’s own Commandments of Art breathes the almost overwhelming passion with which he approached his vocation. An introduction by the leading scholar Johannes Grave situates Friedrich’s art and its reception in the context of the Romantic movement both in Germany and in Europe as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308359168373,"sku":"9781843682547","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781843682547_c560d0e4-bcb4-4338-a5b1-1b4fd3b55faf.jpg?v=1786028249"},{"product_id":"9781847498625","title":"The Marquise of O-","description":"\u003cp\u003eA respectable young   widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O— finds herself   inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the   attentions of his soldiers during the storming of her town’s citadel.   Convinced of her own innocence and wishing to vindicate her own integrity,   the Marquise places an advert in the newspapers, appealing for the father to   come forward and promising to marry him. But will this be enough to quench   her family’s doubts and the derision of the society around her? Will this   help her solve the mystery and urge the perpetrator to acknowledge paternity   of the child?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     One of the great classics of German literature, Heinrich von Kleist’s   sexually charged novella is as edgy today as it was when it was first   published in 1808, and is accompanied here by two other celebrated stories,   ‘The Earthquake in Chile’ and ‘The Foundling’, showcasing the range of their   author’s narrative abilities and his taste for the ambiguous and the   paradoxical.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308508459381,"sku":"9781847498625","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847498625_c39107ed-7e4b-4ebc-8eaf-4d50de736938.jpg?v=1786029445"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-heinrich-von-kleist.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}