That almost all fear of Friedrich Nietzsche have known. It is also clear why.
Before Heinrich von Kleist, however, so I have found over the years, have pretty much the same people fear that makes your pants before Nietzsche.
Now Kleist has never said so revolutionary philosophy, Nietzsche alswie doubt. So what has the just because he wrote very good plays and outstanding novels, he done so bad?
I think I know what. He has committed at least two cardinal sins.
First, the narrative pace, which he presents in his novels, so immense that today's half-Meier just before turn pale.
Secondly, and thus is directly related, Kleist shows in what German can already afford purely syntactic. Even more paleness in the faces of those who went somewhere in or behind Frankfurt on a university auxiliary school.
I had a gifted student from Eastern Europe who had already learned in just two years very good German, only slightly offset with her 18 years down the eleventh attended high school class here. For German lessons.
Once I read it, unprepared, a page from the Kätchchen of Heilbronn before, also the beginning of the engagement in St. Domingo, just like that, from the leaf.
Then she was first speechless. Almost desperate. She said that she will never learn in life.
Yes, I reach in the classroom sometimes harsh methods, depending on age, resilience and talent.
I told her that she should not scare (they had as teenagers Dostoijewski, Gogol, etc. engulfed in Russian), which is just one of our best, most Germans understand the no longer at sight, they may remain, I gave her only want to show what is going on when you can really German.
Casually put it this way: Kleist is an evil, because modern social democrat does not talk like that. Recall that in him may perhaps stand still "nigger" in a text, it is not anyway.
Shakespeare has the good fortune to have been Englishman, so its syntax even with the best intentions, and he had also written short stories, could not come close to those Kleist.
Whether he wisely incarnated for that purpose, to the effect not to offend as an Englishman, I do not know.
One should not exclude whose you are not sure.
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