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

by Peter Wortsman and Various

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014119880X
• ISBN13: 9780141198804
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher