by Heinrich von Kleist · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080705860
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«La Marquise d'O--» is the novel by Heinrich von Kleist, published by Flammarion in paperback (258 pages, in French).
In «La Marquise d'O--», a young widow finds herself pregnant without knowing how after losing consciousness during the assault on her city in northern Italy; to recover her honor she publishes a notice in the newspapers seeking the father of her child and publicly assumes her situation.
«La Marquise d'O--» was originally published in German in 1808 as «Die Marquise von O...»; the French translation is by M.-L. Laureau and Georges La Flize.
For readers of classic European fiction, especially those studying nineteenth-century German literature.
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.
