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The Marquise of O- (Paperback)
Heinrich Von Kleist; Translated by Nicholas Jacobs
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In a Northern Italian town during the Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a
young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself
unexpectedly pregnant. This follows an attack on the town's citadel, in
which several Russian soldiers tried to assault her before she was
rescued by Count F-, at which point she fell unconscious. Thrown out of
her father's house, Julietta publishes an announcement in the local
newspaper stating that she is pregnant and would like the father of her
child to make himself known so that she can marry him.
What follows is an ambiguously comic drama of sexuality and family
respectability. One of Kleist's best-loved works, The Marquise of O- is
an ingenious and timeless story of the mystery of human desire, and
Nicholas Jacobs's new translation captures the full richness of its
irony.
Out of the chaos following Lenin's death and the mounting fury
against Lukacs and his freshly penned History and Class
Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as
"the only theoretical equal to Marx." Lukacs shows, with
unprecedented clarity, how Lenin's historical interventions-from
his vanguard politics and repurposing of the state to his detection
of a new, imperialist stage of capitalism-advanced the conjunction
of theory and practice, class consciousness and class struggle. A
postscript from 1967 reflects on how this picture of Lenin, which
both shattered failed Marxism and preserved certain prejudices of
its day, became even more inspirational after the oppressions of
Stalin. Lukacs's study remains indispensable to an understanding of
the contemporary significance of Lenin's life and work.
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