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Selected Prose of
Heinrich von Kleist

Selected and translated by Peter Wortsman, Archipelago Books, Penguin Random House, 2010
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/234477/selected-prose-of-heinrich-von-kleist-by-heinrich-von-kleist/

“English does not lend itself readily to Kleist’s syntactical effects. Mr. Wortsman rises to the challenge with relish. He achieves readability while preserving something of the structure and even the rhythm of Kleist’s dense yet lucid sentences: no easy task. This curious author’s contemporaries must have found his prose almost as odd and involving as it seems to us. Even in his own day, no one wrote quite like Kleist.”

Ian Brunskill, The Wall Street Journal

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