The Marquise of O; Other Stories (Penguin Classics) - Kleist, Heinrich Von

Translated and with an introduction by David Luke and Nigel Reeves;  Cover shows a detail from 'Portrait of Frau von Cotta' by Gottlieb Schick; Clean, tight, unmarked; minimal wear to edges; small, light crease to upper edge of cover; aged tanned; otherwise very minimal wear; appears unread; Written between 1799 to 1811. Kleist's writing expressed the state of mind that follows upon the loss of every article of faith which he had imbibed in his early years from the German Enlightenment. It is Kleist's vulnerability and disequilibrium, his pronounced sense of evil, his desperate challenge to established values and beliefs. The world of all these stories is an unpredictable one - a world of dislocated causality on which inexplicable factors intrude and in which sanity is poised on the brink of destruction. 
Very Good
Soft cover
Penguin Classics
1978
Middlesex, UK