The Major Works of Heinrich Von Kleist (New Directions Book)

Nightmare--a politically explosive murder trial in the middle of the Vietnam War. Contents Preface A Peripatetic Writer without a Biography The Elusive World of Kleist: Problems of Kleist Criticism The Major Dramas and Novellen The Drama of the Human Will “Chance” and Evil in a Deceptive World The Comedy of Deception The Test of “Feeling” The “Patriotic" Outburst The Search for Justice The Dream of Reason Produces Illusions Epilogue: The Sense of the Grotesque Bibliographical Notes Index

a Biography On The Writer And Playwright Heinrich Von Kleist