Search results for ""Author Heinrich Von Kleist""

Santa Cecilia o el poder de la música vio la luz en el Berliner Abendblätter apenas un año antes de la muerte de Kleist en 1811, como regalo para la hija de un amigo. Esta leyenda, que resonará con fuerza en relatos posteriores de Bécquer como El Miserere o Maese Pedro el organista, supone un hito de la narrativa breve del romanticismo alemán. El sustrato popular de lo legendario, la predilección por el tema medieval germánico y, sobre todo, la celebración de la música como lenguaje del misterio y mediación del entusiasmo, convierten este texto en un relato imprescindible. Tras la publicación de los cuentos de Conrad y Poe, Alpha Decay añade a su colección una nueva joya de la literatura clásica, traducida por primera vez al castellano, y lo hace con un autor cuya obra encandiló a los mismísimos Hermanos Grimm, padres del folklore literario alemán. Un relato sublime, cumbre de la narrativa alemana, sobre el poder arrebatador de la música.

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Michael Kohlhaas es un tratante de caballos de una conducta intachable. Un día sus caballos le son arrebatados por la autoridad debido a unos aranceles a pagar. La injusticia de esta acción unido a la lentitud de la burocracia, sumergiran a nuestro protagonista en una situación de desesperación que le resultará imposible de superar.

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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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Aiming 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.

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El mezquino juez Adán recibe en su juzgado un caso singular: averiguar quién ha destrozado un cántaro en el dormitorio de la joven Eva, y el principal sospechoso es su prometido Ruprecht. Sin embargo, el auténtico causante no es otro que el mismo juez Adán, quien se valdrá de las más grotescas argucias para salvaguardar su supuesta inocencia en esta extraordinaria comedia.Por su parte, "El terremoto en Chile" narra las desventuras de una pareja de amantes, condenados a muerte por consumar su amor en el jardín de un convento en el que habían internado a la joven para apartarla de su amado.Por último, el lector encontrará la historia de la marquesa de O..., que ha quedado en estado sin comprender cómo ha podido suceder acontecimiento tan llamativo.Presentamos así una representativa selección de uno de los autores más relevantes del romanticismo alemán, cuya propia vida contiene las características que habrán de marcar este movimiento en toda Europa -búsqueda incansable de lo

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Aiming 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.

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'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz KafkaMICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE WILL HAVE JUSTICE.Based on the real life of an ordinary horse-dealer cheated by a government official, Michael Kohlhaas 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?Praised 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.

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In a Northern Italian town during the Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. This follows an attack on the town's citadel, in which several Russian soldiers tried to assault her before she was rescued by Count F-, at which point she fell unconscious. Thrown out of her father's house, Julietta publishes an announcement in the local newspaper stating that she is pregnant and would like the father of her child to make himself known so that she can marry him. What follows is an ambiguously comic drama of sexuality and family respectability. One of Kleist's best-loved works, The Marquise of O- is an ingenious and timeless story of the mystery of human desire, and Nicholas Jacobs's new translation captures the full richness of its irony.

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