Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann (Penguin Classics)

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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. 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. 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.

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. Wortsman is also a literary translator from the German into English of works by von Chamisso, the Brothers Grimm, Heine, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Kafka, Kleist, Musil, and Mynona, among others.

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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’. urn:lcp:talesofgermanima0000unse:epub:53506a49-8943-4403-b728-a6a126c4612e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier talesofgermanima0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2g0mccbr5q Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780141198804

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.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. 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). This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly’s tragic struggle with flypaper, the laughter of a horse; he peers through microscopes and telescopes, dissecting both large and small. Musil’s quest for the essential is a voyage into the minute. A strange collection overall and fantasy and fantastical/magical realism/Romanticism written in German, and especially the audiobook is missing some pre-text material like an introduction. The collection begins in the early 19th century with a few stories by the Grimm brothers, ETA Hoffmann, and Heinrich von Kleist, the three writers over all, minus Kafka and Rilke, that I had read the most of before. Actually beyond these four, I don't really know much of the other writers. I also found these to be among the best as well.

The selection seems at pain to give us examples of 'movements' - Symbolism (Rilke) and Dada (Schwitters) - but this is no bad thing. The introduction has been written by translator Peter Wortsman, who has also edited the collection. In it, he states that ‘fear has indeed proven rich fodder for fantasy in the German storytelling tradition’, and that ‘the darkest German literary confections are such a pleasure to read because they are also spiked with humour – therein lies their enduring appeal’. Wortsman goes on to say that in editing the anthology, he has aimed to include stories and extracts ‘from a span of several centuries and from various literary movements born of crisis and doubt’. 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. Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 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.'For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Half the book is devoted to this era with three short Grimm tales, the expected Hoffmann The Sandman and a picaresque fantasy novella that owes a great deal to the previous century Peter Schlemiel.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. 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 As for Rune Mountain, I have been reading Lovecraft and could see certain similarities in style and substance, but there isn't enough input from the editor (e.g. commentary) to know if this is coincidental or not. I personally doubt Lovecraft would have read Rune Mountain, but he might have developed similar sensibilities (e.g. fear or awe of mountainous landscapes) via the Romantic movement. The next section jumps to the period 1890-1945 as if the Germans had lost their imagination for well over half a century. These tales are often very short indeed and concentrated into the highly disruptive years between 1910-1925. 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.