Hurt in the Guts
Joe Dunthorne: A Masterpiece and a Disaster, 1 April 2021
Michael Kohlhaas
by Heinrich von Kleist, translated by Michael Hofmann.
New Directions, 112 pp., £11.99, April 2020,978 0 8112 2834 3 Show More
by Heinrich von Kleist, translated by Michael Hofmann.
New Directions, 112 pp., £11.99, April 2020,
“... other writers would dedicate a whole chapter.Nowhere is this better displayed than in his novella Michael Kohlhaas, first published in its entirety in 1810. It tells the story of a husband, father, horse dealer and ‘good citizen’ who, while attempting to cross into Saxony to sell his wares, gets ripped off and mocked by the Junker of the castle at the ... ”