Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group

ISbN 978-0-14-119880-4 $18.00 (NCR)
Literature 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 400 pp.
Rights: N00 A Penguin Classics Original
On sale: 2/26/2013
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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
Tales of the German
Imagination from the
Brothers Grimm to
Ingeborg Bachmann
Translated, Selected, and Edited with an Introduction
by Peter Wortsman
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.”
n A unique volume with no competition
n For fans of shows such as Grimm and Once Upon a Time, and the
recent film adaptations of “Snow White”
n Viking will publish Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, translated by
New York Times bestselling author Philip Pullman, in November 2012
PeteR woRtsMAn is a freelance translator and
journalist. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin
and is the author of A Modern Way to Die: Small Stories and
Microtales, and of the plays Burning Words and The Tattooed Man
Tells All. He lives in New York City.
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