Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, 9780141198804
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Haunting German tales: madness, fantasy, and the unconscious revealed.

Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann

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    384 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 2013

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Summary

Shadows and Secrets: A Journey Through German Imagination

A new collection of the most compelling, strange and fantastical German stories from the past two hundred years.

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141198804
ISBN-10:014119880X
Series:Penguin Classics
Author:Peter Wortsman
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:1 January 2013
Weight:281g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 22mm
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Critics Review

Appealing – The New YorkerAll twenty-five tales make absolutely riveting reading and are almost all suitable for reading to children as bedtime stories. As for the adults - within the pages of Tales of the German Imagination is a treasury of delicious, old fashioned story-telling – The BayA solid collection of classic stories … a labor of love – Library Journal

About The Author

Peter Wortsman

Peter Wortsman is a freelance translator and journalist. He was a 2010 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and is the author of Modern Way to Die- small stories and microtales, the plays Burning Words and The Tattoed Man Tells All. Wortsman’s translations from the German include Telegrams of the Soul- Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg, Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine, Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil, and Peter Schlemiel, the Man Who Sold His Shadow, by Adelbert von Chamisso.

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