HUMOR / Form / Essays

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

The article examines the journalistic works of the German writer and dramaturgist Hein­rich von Kleist (1777–1811), who was also a master of short prose form. In the last years of his life (1810–1811) he published the newspaper “Berliner Abendblätter”, printing anecdotes and short essays of a philosophical and aesthetic nature regularly. In these works, Kleist constructs a unique poetological system that reveals man…

Reference · Wikidata

piece of writing often written from an author's personal point of view