![]() ![]() ![]() Kleist’s writing, which I have long struggled to get into, has at last opened itself up to me. Stefan Zweig, the early-twentieth-century Austrian writer, wrote a book entitled Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche: The Struggle with the Daemon, which suggests something of his character and his kindred spirits. Before that death, however, he managed to produce a small body of work – his complete works, including letters, fits snuggle into a single two-thousand-page volume – which time has only elevated in stature.įor Kleist did not fit in within his world. Goethe famously snubbed him, and Kleist’s biography tends to be haunted by its ending – he died in a suicide pact at age 34. However, it took a long time for the world to get used to him. Heinrich von Kleist is one of the most extraordinary German writers of an age when German writing was already shaping world literature. ![]()
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