The Duel

A new translation of a key work by one of European literaturers"s most important early writers. One of the few novellas written by the master German playwright,The Duelwas considered by Thomas Mann and others to be one of the great works of German literature. The story of a virtuous woman slandered by a nobleman, it is a precise study of a subject that fascinated von Kleist: That people are sometimes seemingly punished for their very innocence.

Heinrich Von Kleist (1777–1811) is best known for his revolutionary plays and stories, such as Michael Kohlhaas, embracing realism and rejecting the ideals of eminent German humanists such as Goethe.

Annie Janusch is an editor at The Quarterly Conversation and Translation Review, and the translator of Wolf Haas' Brenner and God (Melville House).

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