By Heinrich von Kleist
“Kleist’s narrative language is whatever thoroughly distinctive. it's not adequate to learn it as historical—even in his day not anyone wrote as he did...An impetus squeezed out with iron, completely un-lyrical detachment brings forth tangled, knotted, overloaded sentences painfully soldered together...and pushed by means of a breathless tempo.”—Thomas Mann
Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and gear of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. those ethical stories circulation throughout internal landscapes, exploring the bridges among cause and feeling and the frontiers among the human psyche and the divine.
The matters of Heinrich von Kleist are undying. The mysteries in his fiction and visionary essays nonetheless breathe.
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In his inhuman * In 1794 the French Convention National abolished slavery on the French part of the Island of Santo Domingo in what today is Haiti, whereupon the white planters balked, refusing to abide by the law. A bitter struggle that would become the Haitian Revolution broke out between the blacks, at first supported by French revolutionary forces, and their former masters. Atrocities were committed by both sides. Putting economics over ethics, Napoleon subsequently backed the cause of the planters.
But to avoid running into any troops that might be patrolling the highway you’ll have to hold off your return until after midnight, but then make sure to walk quickly so as to get them here before the break of day. ” she asked. ” the boy replied. ” Hereupon Toni rushed back to the house and brought the stranger his breakfast; and after bringing back the dirty dishes, the · · 60 · · daughter rejoined her mother in the front dining room to attend to household chores. A little while later, without fail, the mother went to the cupboard and, of course, found the message missing.
The marine officer once again appeared on the scene, tried to · · 33 · · comfort him, and assured him that, though circumstances justified his restraint, he deeply regretted not having come to Don Fernando’s assistance in this tragic debacle; but Don Fernando said he bore him no ill will, and bid him only help now to remove the corpses. They were carried in the dark of dusk to Don Alonzo’s lodgings; Don Fernando followed, shedding many a bitter tear upon little Philip’s face. He spent the night at Don Alonzo’s, and inventing various excuses, first because his wife was sick, and then, because he did not know how she would judge his actions, he delayed for the longest time informing her of the whole unhappy business; but shortly thereafter, apprised of all that had transpired by a chance visit from a friend, this admirable lady wept her motherly heart out in silence, and fell into his arms and kissed him one morning with a last radiant tear.