In his great biography, Günter Blamberger draws a new Kleist: Unlike conventional approaches, he tries not to understand Kleist’s life from its end, from the perspective of suicide as the final catastrophe of an allegedly always crisis-ridden life. Rather, he remains at the height of Kleist’s presence; he narrates from Kleist’s awareness of the moment, showing the unsettling and astonishing in every phase of his life, the explosives in every one of Kleist’s risky biographical and literary experiments.The result is a standard work of German literary history, a captivating and vivid biography of one of the greatest literary geniuses of all time, award-winning as the top title of 2011 in the field of humanities non-fiction and honored in Times Literary Supplement: „This new biography is certain to remain the definitive Life of Kleist for a generation”, in the FAZ: “Blamberger’s biography is so clever that other books about Kleist suddenly appear to be, if not stupid, then at least negligently under-complex”, in the SZ: “A Kleist Biography grandiose rich in perspectives” or in the Tagesspiegel: “Probably the best Kleist biography to date”.weiterlesen