#kleistes

[liebesfraulein]

The kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded.

— Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O...

[majestativa]

... to find an abyss deep enough to leap into with her.

— HEINRICH VON KLEIST ⚜️ from a letter to Marie von Kleist, written c. November 19, 1811, on Henriette Vogel, featured in An Abyss Deep Enough: Letters of Heinrich Von Kleist, transl by Philip B. Miller, (1982)

[lalalaugenbrot]

neue Kleist-Briefe HEUTE

[devdas5z]

Irina Von Kleist

[mercedes-lenz]

natürlich wurde kleist in einer von über 200 "verdreckten obstkisten" gefunden das ist so er

[tiny-steve]

what if we kissed at the kleistbriefe jahrhundertfund press conference (and we were both girls) 😳😳😳

[pansytheleia]

Es gibt ein verschollenes Kleistwerk namens don Quixote?

[peipurr]

some young FM :)

[flowers-and-fichte]

Schlegel: Fighting with my brother about which fruit would win if they were sentient and could fight.

Kleist: Obviously pineapple.

Achim: Except coconut would kick its ass...

Heine: Uh...have you seen a durian before?

Schiller: Dragonfruit is the obvious right answer.

Goethe: That's ridiculous. Pomegranate is known as "grenade" in many languages, e.g. "grenade" in French, "grenade apple" in Swedish...

Bettine: Grapefruit, duh.

Fichte: Obviously the kiwi, as it's the only fruit that can fly. I mean, how would you even fight back?

Humboldt: But kiwis don't fly. Neither the birds nor the fruit.

Tieck: Tomato obviously. It would be hanging out with the vegetables and no one would notice until the other fruits kill each other off, then it swoops in and claims victory.

Brentano: Pumpkins are pretty tough.

Eichendorff: Jackfruit. Have you ever seen those fuckers?

Kleist: CAN'T YOU SEE FRUIT VS. FRUIT BATTLES ARE TEARING US ALL APART?!?!?!?!?!

*everyone arguing*

Novalis: Grapes.

*everyone stops and looks in Novalis's direction*

Novalis: What? They're like a...little...purple...gang.

[aschenblumen]

§ 20. Como puede observarse, esta solución [mantener completo silencio] es solo condicional; y tarde o temprano la verdad saldrá a la luz. Para que la credibilidad de los periódicos no se vea comprometida, debe existir necesariamente un arte de dar las malas noticias al pueblo. ¿Sobre qué se apoyará este arte? § 21. El diablo cuida de los suyos.

—Heinrich von Kleist, Manual de periodística francesa. Traducción de Francisco Acosta Joerges.

[soisaidfine]

Kleist wrote to his fiancée: "What is evil? The things of this world are intertwined and connected by a thousand threads; every action is the mother of millions of others, the worst generates the best."

Bruce Springsteen: "Adam raised a Cain" Ethel Cain: "We’re all daughters of Cain"

Stéphane Braunschweig: "In The Schroffenstein Family, there is this very important theme of the falsely accused—a Hitchcockian theme: how can one prove their innocence when everything seems to indicate their guilt? All the characters are innocent in action but as soon as they are told they could be guilty, as soon as suspicion falls on their innocence, they become terribly anxious. In Kafka's work, this issue leads to the question of responsibility. What makes one innocently guilty in Kafka's view is that one is—in the Judaic sense—responsible for the other: for Kafka, the other profoundly exists; even if living this reality is difficult, the other is there, as other. In Kleist's work, on the contrary, innocent guilt leads to a question of irresponsibility."

Anne-Françoise Benhamou: "This questioning of the notion of responsibility is at the heart of Kleist's famous 'Kantian crisis.' He wrote to his fiancée at the time:

"And what does it mean to do evil, judging by its effects? What is evil? Absolutely evil? The things of this world are intertwined and connected by a thousand threads; every action is the mother of millions of others, and often the worst generates the best. Who on this earth, tell me, has ever committed an act of pure evil—something that would be evil for all eternity?"

One almost thinks of Dostoevsky… And it’s also understandable why Nietzsche loved Kleist so much."

Stéphane Braunschweig: "It is a work constantly permeated by fantasy. And the fantasies present are very elementary; they are almost like childhood anxieties: the fantasy of destroying the other, of being destroyed by the other. Kleist constantly brings us back to archaic impulses. Whatever the complexity of the plot or situation, these primitive affects are always there; this is what is unsettling and makes us uncomfortable. And at the same time, what I love in his work is that this discomfort is accompanied by jubilation. Perhaps because at a certain point, it feels as if there is no censorship at all… as if we are, in a way, in a theater without a superego." - September 2002, Stéphane Braunschweig

"this relationship that almost always exists in human punishment, creating a situation in which there is almost never a fair sentence or a judicial error, but rather a sort of harmony between the judge's mistaken idea of an innocent act and the guilty facts they have overlooked." - Marcel Proust

[majestativa]

Her grave is more precious to me than the beds of all the empresses of this world.

— HEINRICH VON KLEIST ⚜️ from a letter to Marie von Kleist, written c. November 21, 1811, on Henriette Vogel, featured in An Abyss Deep Enough: Letters of Heinrich Von Kleist, transl by Philip B. Miller, (1982)

[lalalaugenbrot]

neuer Lebensplan(tm) unlocked: als Literturdetektiv durch Europa reisen und Archive und Dachböden nach Kleistmanuskripten durchforsten

[sesiondemadrugada]

Die Marquise von O… (Éric Rohmer, 1976).

[mercedes-lenz]

froher neue details über die neu gefundenen briefe von heinrich von kleist werden bekannt gegeben tag an alle die zelebrieren !

[estomia]

Ich bin cringe, jedoch frei