Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann Wortsman Peter
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann Wortsman Peter Spanning the Brothers Grimm to Kafka and beyond, a new collection of the most strange and fantastical…
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Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann Wortsman Peter
Spanning the Brothers Grimm to Kafka and beyond, a new collection of the most strange and fantastical German stories from the past 200 yearsFranz Kafka posthumously cornered the nightmare market in the twentieth century. Kafka had his precursors among the German Romantics, as well as his contemporaries working in kindred veins and his heirs in post-World War II Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Yet in our adulation of Kafka's wonderfully bizarre prose, English-language readers tend to overlook the fact that he was not spawned Athena-like from the cranium of German literature.
This rich and varied anthology gathers together many haunting stories, from the dark fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, to Kafka's own chilling satire "In the Penal Colony," to the surreal fantasies of Kurt Schwitter in "The Onion."For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading
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