This whole Kleist thread cracks me
up...
My second undergrad major was German, and the Kleist
work we read in my class on 19th-century German lit
was a short story called "Das Erdbeben in Chili"
("The Earthquake in Chile"), used as an example of the
German "maerchen" or "fairy tales" written in the early
1800's.
I always assumed that was one of Kleist's more
lasting works, yet I've only heard it once in a
question-- and that was as one of the harder clues before
the Michael Kolhaas "giveaway".
You certainly
have my permission to ask other Kleist works; I know
those aren't the only two he ever wrote.
Bryce