Herr Kleist is a dead German author, poet, and philosophical essayist of the Romantic persuasion. Most of his characters are engrossing emotional nutcases, and scholars used to get all huffy about his supposed influence on fascist ideology, but they were probably just jealous of his breadth. Regardless of any of this, the consensus is that is work is a cornerstone of modern drama. His perennial story in this issue, “The Earthquake in Chile,” is part of forthcoming, freshly translated collection of his prose.
Story Read by: Voiceover legend Kendrick Martin
isisareisTranslated from the German by Peter WortsmanTranslation Copyright © 2008 Peter Wortsman(Excerpted from, selected, translated and with an afterword by Peter Wortsman, forthcoming from Archipelago Books, NY, 2009)
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