For 10 points, name this author of Michael Kohlhaas and "The Earthquake in Chile."
This author recounted seeing a graceful young boy lose his grace because of his inability to exactly replicate a movement he had made with his foot in an essay which ends with the observation that we would have to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge again to return to a state of innocence. In one of his shortest stories, a marquis is driven mad and burns his own castle down because it is haunted by the ghost of a woman who had died after he had asked her to sleep behind the oven. This author of "On the Theater of Marionettes" and "The Beggarwoman of Locarno" wrote a novella whose title character ends up marrying Count F, who replies to a newspaper announcement about her mysterious pregnancy. He also wrote about a man who unrelentingly seeks justice after Junker Tronka mistreats his horses, as well as writing about Jeronimo Rugera, who is preparing to hang himself in prison before the title disaster strikes in one story. For 10 points, name this author of Michael Kohlhaas and "The Earthquake in Chile."
This author recounted seeing a graceful young boy lose his grace because of his inability to exactly replicate a movement he had made with his foot in an essay which ends with the observation that we would have to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge again to return to a state of innocence.
Heinrich von Kleist