Kleist grew up in the optimistic faith of the Enlightenment but moved as a writer into a much less comfortable world. He is both deadly serious and grotesquely comic. In his radical scepticism and longing for love, he reaches beyong his time into ours.
- ISBN10 0460876422
- ISBN13 9780460876421
- Publish Date 13 April 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 April 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English