by Heinrich von Kleist · Magisterio Español. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426572028
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«Catalina de Heilbronn o la prueba de fuego» is the historical-chivalric drama by Heinrich von Kleist, from Magisterio Español, in paperback (178 pp.).
The action takes place in the Middle Ages and follows Catherine, daughter of an armorer, and Count Friedrich Wetter von Strahl. Between dreams, a secret tribunal, and challenges of honor, Catherine must face the ordeal by fire to prove her innocence and her love, in a work where the supernatural and the chivalric code intersect.
It belongs to the Novelas y Cuentos collection (no. 200), German literature section, 19th-century theater. Translation from German and prologue by Carmen Bravo-Villasante.
Recommended for readers of German Romantic theater and 19th-century European classics.
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays The Prince of Homburg, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, The Broken Jug, Amphitryon and Penthesilea, and the novellas Michael Kohlhaas and The Marquise of O. Kleist ended his life in a suicide pact by shooting himself together with a close female friend who was terminally ill.
