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The duel / Heinrich Von Kleist ; translated by Annie Janusch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811.
- Series:
- Art of the novella
- The art of the novella
- Standardized Title:
- Zweikampf. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 51 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, [2011]
- Summary:
- "No amount of wisdom could possibly make sense of the mysterious verdict which God intended through this duel." A new translation of a key work by one of European literature's most important early writers. One of the few novellas written by the master German playwright, "The Duel" was considered by Thomas Mann and others to be one of the great works of German literature. The story of a virtuous woman slandered by a nobleman, it is a precise study of a subject that fascinated von Kleist: That people are sometimes seemingly punished for their very innocence. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
- Notes:
- Translated from the German.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1935554530
- OCLC:
- 687652906
- Publisher Number:
- 99948474966
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