by Heinrich von Kleist · Hamburger Lesehefte · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783872911643
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«Das Erdbeben in Chili» is the short novel by Heinrich von Kleist, published by Hamburger Lesehefte in paperback (32 pages, in German).
A young Spanish man imprisoned and the noble woman he loves await execution in Santiago de Chile when an earthquake in 1647 destroys the city. Amid the ruins they reunite and believe they see a divine sign in the catastrophe, but the society that condemned them has not disappeared with the rubble.
Booklet number 165 of the Hamburger Lesehefte collection. Also includes «Das Bettelweib von Locarno» and «Die heilige Cäcilie», in addition to the title story. German edition published in 1981.
School and study reading edition, suitable for German students and for those who want to approach the classics of nineteenth-century German narrative.
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Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays The Prince of Homburg, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, The Broken Jug, Amphitryon and Penthesilea, and the novellas Michael Kohlhaas and The Marquise of O. Kleist ended his life in a suicide pact by shooting himself together with a close female friend who was terminally ill.
