by Heinrich von Kleist, Igor Kogan, Tatiana Zelenska, Frances A. King
Just back from a long train journey, I took the opportunity to read Michael Kohlhaas in German. I can't imagine this text in English; it somehow seems simultaneously modern, and of the time in which the story is set. The actual language hardly intrudes at all, but there are particular words or phras...
_Michael Kohlhaas_ is a fictionalized account of an actual historical event. A horse trader from Brandenburg on a journey to Saxony is falsely extorted for a border crossing by the Squire Wenzel von Tronka, who also keeps two of Kohlhaas’ horses as surety against the trader’s inability to pay. Upon ...
Guy has his horses stolen and abused by a bad local government guy, and then horse guy can't seem to get an appeal through the courts, people start getting beaten up and dying, and so horse guy turns into a German Robin Hood. Okay, but really sort of trite at this point. I know I'm looking at things...
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