Michael Kohlhaas: Newly translated by Michael Hofmann

Michael Kohlhaas is a novel by German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that was first published in 1774. It is a darkly comical and magnificently weird story of one man's alienation from a corrupt legal system. When his attempts to claim his rights are thwarted by bureaucracy and nepotism, Kohlhaas vows to take justice into his own - increasingly bloody - hands.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 09 September 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Franz Kafka's novel "Michael Kohlhaas Has Been Wronged" is a darkly comical and magnificently weird story of one man's alienation from a corrupt legal system. Based on the real life of an ordinary horse-dealer cheated by a government official, Kohlhaas vows to take justice into his own - increasingly bloody - hands when his attempts to claim his rights are thwarted by bureaucracy and nepotism. Praised by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Susan Sontag, Roberto Bolaño, Werner Herzog, and J. M. Coetzee, this is one of the most influential tales in German literature. In this vital new translation by the renowned poet Michael Hofmann, Kleist's bizarre, brutal, and maddening story is urgent today.

Michael Kohlhaas Has Been Wronged" is a novel by Franz Kafka that tells the story of one man's alienation from a corrupt legal system. Based on the real life of an ordinary horse-dealer cheated by a government official, Kohlhaas vows to take justice into his own - increasingly bloody - hands when his attempts to claim his rights are thwarted by bureaucracy and nepotism. Praised by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Susan Sontag, Roberto Bolaño, Werner Herzog, and J. M. Coetzee, this is one of the most influential tales in German literature. In this vital new translation by the renowned poet Michael Hofmann, Kleist's bizarre, brutal, and maddening story is urgent today.

Weight: 88g
Dimension: 130 x 198 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781784877354