The Biography. Translated from German by Sebastian Goth and Kelly Kawar
Buch, Englisch, 521 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1007 g
ISBN: 978-3-7705-6574-0
Verlag: Wilhelm Fink Verlag
In his great biography Günter Blamberger gives us a new Kleist: Unlike conventional approaches, he does not try to understand Kleist's life from the perspective of its end—from the perspective of his suicide as the final catastrophe of a life in permanent crisis. Rather, he remains at eye-level with Kleist’s present, narrating from the perspective of Kleist’s experience—in the moment with him—capturing the unsettling or the astonishing in each phase of his life, the explosive nature of each one of his risky experiments in living and writing. The result is an indispensable work of German literary history—a vivid, captivating biography of one of the greatest literary geniuses of all time.