It is at this point, however, that one suspects that the selection has its ideological aspects since there seems to be an intent to show the German imagination in a certain light for which we are pre-prepared by our own prejudices. This makes me suspicious. The first half of the book is entirely a matter of writers who had no political nation only a romantic notion of what it was to be German in an essentialist cultural sense. 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.” This Penguin Classics collection seems to be part of a relatively recent commitment by the publishers to the fantasy tale and (perhaps deliberately) competes with the slightly more 'high art' and European-focused Daedalus series.

As the first section was dominated by Grimm and Peter Schlemiel so this section has as its centre-piece the necessary Kafka - In the Penal Colony. This sets the tone. A disproportionate number of stories are about aspects of institutionalisation in army, prison and asylum, which may, indeed, reflect the mentality of the sensitive German intellectual but may equally be what we want to hear about Germany in this period.

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Romantic Fairy Tales written by Carol Tully and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-22 with Fiction categories. Selected Tales Of The Brothers Grimm written by Brothers Grimm and has been published by Archipelago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-15 with Fiction categories. The selection seems at pain to give us examples of 'movements' - Symbolism (Rilke) and Dada (Schwitters) - but this is no bad thing. This new translation offers a more representative selection of the Grimms' tales by including fables and morality tales as well as all the best known 'fairy' tales. It faithfully conveys the Grimms' own texts and provides a wealth of information about the origins of the stories, their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms, with examples of earlier versions and stories that were omitted as being unsuitable for children. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-02-18 11:14:03 Associated-names Wortsman, Peter Autocrop_version 0.0.5_books-20210916-0.1 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40362405 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

I still want to know if and why the Germans lost their imagination between 1830 and 1890 and if it is true that the German imagination after 1890 is always to be assumed to be as grim, anxiety-driven and negative as it is presented here.Two other tales deserve mention - George Heym's violently sadistic The Lunatic from 1913 and Egon Erwin Kisch's ribald satire on military life from 1941 The Tattooed Portrait. Both of these last continue the dehumanising and resentful theme of institutionalisation which appears again with equal force in the final and shortest section which contains three stories from the immediate post-war period and then one from 1971 and one from 1984. Peter Wortsman is the author of a novel (Cold Earth Wanderers, 2014), thee collections of stories (A Modern Way to Die, 1991, second edition, 2019, Footprints in Wet Cement, 2017, and Stimme und Atem/Out of Breath, Out of Mind, forthcoming in 2019), two stage plays (Burning Words, premiered in 2006, and in German translation in 2014, and The Tattooed Man Tells All, first staged in 2018), a travel memoir (Ghost Dance in Berlin, 2013), as well as a work of nonfiction (The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard, 2019).

St Cecilia tells the story of some iconoclasts who gather in a cloister in Aachen at the end of the sixteenth century, ready to wreak destruction. Having witnessed the destruction of Palmyra by so-called Islamic State, I felt terrible about the impending destruction and was reeled into the story. Spanning the Brothers Grimm to Kafka and beyond, a new collection of the most strange and fantastical German stories from the past 200 years The tattooed portrait / Egon Erwin Kisch. PART THREE. The experiment or the victory of the children / Unica Zürn Tales of the German Imagination is split into three separate parts, and includes predominantly male authors. In fact, Ingeborg Bachmann, mentioned in the title, is one of only two females featured in the collection. There are some other famous names amongst the authors – E.T.A. Hoffmann, Heinrich Heine and Rainer Maria Rilke, for example. The anthology begins with three stories by the Brothers Grimm – ‘The Singing Bone’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and ‘The Children of Hameln’, which is their telling of a tale more commonly known as ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. Whilst these stories are relatively well known in the English speaking world, others from the less popular authors feel fresh and add a nice twist to such a collection.

Selected Tales written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with Fiction categories. The Sandman written by E.T.A. Hoffmann and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Fiction categories. Cold Earth Wanderers written by Peter Wortsman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories. Tales of the German Imagination, from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, is a ‘new collection of fantastical, strange and compelling stories from 200 years of German literature’. It ‘includes such literary giants as the Brothers Grimm, Kafka, Musil and Rilke, as well as many surprising and unexpected voices’.