The Marquise of O—

FURTHER READING IN ENGLISH

The most readily available collections of all Kleist stories are The Marquise von O— and Other Stories (Penguin Classics, London, 1978), translated with an Introduction by David Luke and Nigel Reeves, reprinted with Chronology and Further Reading in 2006, and Selected Writings (J. M. Dent, London, 1997), with Introduction, Chronology and Select Bibliography, edited and translated by David Constantine. This contains all the stories, three plays, selections of Kleist’s short, mainly black-humorous anecdotes, three of his philosophical essays and some letters. A larger selection of Kleist’s anecdotes was published in Poetry Nation Review (Manchester, no. 222, 2015), translated by the present translator. An outstanding English-language essay on Kleist is Stephen Vizinczey “The Genius Whose Time Has Come”, in Truth and Lies in Literature (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1986; first published on the bicentenary of Kleist’s birth in The Times, November 1977). See also The Marquise von O— and Other Stories, translated and with an Introduction by Martin Greenberg and Preface by Thomas Mann (New American Library, New York, 1960).