Otras Latitudes: Michael Kohlhaas (Edition 2) (Paperback)

from antao

Just back from a long train journey, I took the opportunity to read Michael Kohlhaas in German. I can't imagine this text in English; it somehow seems simultaneously modern, and of the time in which the story is set. The actual language hardly intrudes at all, but there are particular words or ph...

from praymont

In 16th-century Brandenburg a horse dealer, Michael Kohlhaas, sets out for business in neighboring Saxony, where he maintains a second home. At the border, a crooked knight seizes two of his horses. It later turns out that the horses were worked almost to death and that one of Kohlhaas's servants...

from janerawoof

Interesting novella. Seeking justice for a wrong, circumstances and his own extreme actions get away from the main character. The bureaucracy and rulers of various German principalities presented. Supposedly darkly comic in spots, I missed that. I don't know if the author's original German was ma...

from HadriantheBlind

An old folk revenge story, but it reads like something much more modern - at least with some of its portrayals and themes. I'll have to try more Kleist in the future.

from ElizaJane

It is beyond me to discuss this title. I had a hard time reading it from the get go. I googled the book quite frequently to get the gist of it and it seems, I think, we are supposed to sympathize with Kohlhaas. I thought he was a selfish, pig-headed, violent idiot and thought he should have just ...