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Titel: Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann Zustand: New EAN: 9780141198804 ISBN: 9780141198804 Verlag: Penguin Classics Produktart: Taschenbuch Release date: 06/12/2012 Sprache: Englisch Höhe: 198mm Länge: 129mm Breite: 22mm Gewicht: 281g Translator: Peter Wortsman Contributor: Peter Wortsman (Translated by) ISBN-10: 014119880X Description: 'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered'
Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity 'The Sandman'; Chamisso's influential black masterpiece 'Peter Schlemiel', where a man barters his own shadow; Kafka's chilling, disturbing satire 'In the Penal Colony'; the Dadaist surrealism of Kurt Schwitters' 'The Onion'; and Bachmann's modern fairy tale 'The Secrets of the Princess of Kagran'. Macabre, dreamlike and expressing deep unconscious fears, these stories are also spiked with unsettling humour, showing stylistic daring as well as giving insight into the darkest recesses of the human condition.
Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing the notion of 'angst' and the stories' place in the context of German history.
Translated, selected and edited with an introduction by Peter Wortsman Herstellungsland und -region: GB Genre: Fiction Thematik: Literary Criticism, Society & Culture, Language & Reference Autor: No Author Information fehlt?
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