{"product_id":"tales-of-the-german-imagination","title":"Tales of the German Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by Peter Wortsman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Sandman\u003c\/em\u003e; Chamisso's influential black masterpiece \u003cem\u003ePeter Schlemiel\u003c\/em\u003e, where a man barters his own shadow; Kafka's chilling, disturbing satire \u003cem\u003eIn the Penal Colony\u003c\/em\u003e; the Dadaist surrealism of Kurt Schwitters' \u003cem\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/em\u003e; and Bachmann's modern fairy tale \u003cem\u003eThe Secrets of the Princess of Kagran\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e372 pages\u003cbr\u003ePenguin Classics, 2013\u003cbr\u003e5.1 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780141198804\u003cbr\u003eShort Stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":291577193,"sku":"9780141198804","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Tales-of-the-German-Imagination_Brothers-Grimm_Ingeborg-Bachmann_Peter-Wortsman.jpg?v=1593199965","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/tales-of-the-german-imagination","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}