Description: An extraordinary masterpiece of German literature, now in a gripping new English translation
Brief description: Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, who committed double suicide with a terminally ill friend.
Review Quotes: His sentences are remarkable--great hatchet-blows of thought, an implacable narrative speed, a pulverizing sense of inevitability. No wonder Kafka liked him so much...--Paul Auster