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The Marquise of O (German: Die Marquise von O....) is a novella by Heinrich von Kleist on the subject of forced seduction. It was first published in 1808.
The Marquise of O, novella by German writer Heinrich von Kleist, published in 1808 in the literary journal Phöbus (which he coedited) as Die Marquise von O. It was collected in Erzählungen (1810–11; “Stories”). Like much of Kleist’s fiction, this work is suffused with ambiguity, irony, paradox, and.
- Heinrich von Kleist
- 1808
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The Marquise of O— is a widow of a nobleman or marquis who died three years ago. The Marquise is seeking the identity of the father of her unborn child because she doesn't know how she became pregnant. She promises to marry the father of her child out of consideration for her family.
Set in 1799, the film tells the story of the Marquise von O, a virtuous widow, who finds herself pregnant and protests her innocence while possibly deserving to be exiled. The film won the Grand Prix Spécial Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
Sep 5, 2023 · The Marquise of O—— is a novella by Heinrich von Kleist first published in 1808. It narrates the story of a daughter of the Commandant of a castle, the widowed Marquise of O——; she is...
THE MARQUISE OF O (Die Marquise von O) by Heinrich von Kleist, 1810. "The Marquise of O" ("Die Marquise von O") caused an outrage in polite German society when Heinrich von Kleist first published the story in 1808 (collected in Erzählungen in 1810).
