Tales of the German Imagination From the Brothers Grimm to I
0.0
( 2929 )
Engelsk
Offers a collection of the haunting German stories from the past 200 years. This title includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity "The Sandman"; Chamisso's influential black mas...
På lager i 0 butikker.
Forlagsbeskrivelse af Tales of the German Imagination From the Brothers Grimm to I af Various
Offers a collection of the haunting German stories from the past 200 years. This title 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; and Kafka's chilling, disturbing satire "In the Penal Colony". ''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
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780141198804
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
384
Udgivelsesdato
06-12-2012
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
2398284
EAN nr.
9780141198804
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
197
Bredde (mm)
125
Længde (mm)
22
Vægt (g)
284