Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann
ISBN 9780141198804 | 400 pages | 26 Feb 2013 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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Spanning the Brothers Grimm to Kafka and beyond, a new collection of the most strange and fantastical German stories from the past 200 years Franz Kafka posthumously cornered the nightmare market in the twentieth century. 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. 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. 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." Introduction: 'Making Bones Sing' TALES OF THE GERMAN IMAGINATION Part One The Singing Bone The Brothers Grimm Hansel and Gretel The Brothers Grimm The Children of Hameln The Brothers Grimm The Sandman E.T.A. Hoggmann Rune Mountain Ludwig Tieck St Cecilia or the Power of Music Heinrich von Kleist Peter Schlemiel Adelbert von Chamisso The Marble Statue Josef von Eichendorff Descent into the Mines Heinrich Heine Part Two My Gmunden Peter Altenberg The Magic Egg Mynona (aka Salomo Friedlaender) The Seamstress Rainer Maria Rilke The Island of Eternal Life Georg Kaiser In the Penal Colony Franz Kafka The Kiss Robert Walser The Blackbird Robert Musil The Lunatic Georg Heym A Conversation Concerning Legs Alfred Lichtenstein The Onion Kurt Schwitters A Raw Recruit Klabund (aka Alfred Henschkle) The Time Saver Ignaz Wrobel (aka Kurt Tucholsky) The Tattooed Portrait Egon Erwin Kisch Part Three The Experiment or the Victory of the Children Unica Zürn The Dandelion Shadowlight Paul Celan The Secrets of the Princess of Kagran Ingeborg Bachmann Conversation Jürg Laederach The Tales and Their Authors Acknowledgments |
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