{"product_id":"9780141198804","title":"Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann","description":"Author: Various\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780141198804\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jan 2013\u003cbr\u003ePages: 384 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new collection of the most compelling, strange and fantastical German stories from the past two hundred years\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 'The Sandman'; Chamisso's influential black masterpiece 'Peter Schlemiel', where a man barters his own shadow; Kafka's chilling, disturbing satire 'In the Penal Colony'; the Dadaist surrealism of Kurt Schwitters' 'The Onion'; and Bachmann's modern fairy tale 'The Secrets of the Princess of Kagran'. 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.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67451943387294,"sku":"UBD-9780141198804","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780141198804.jpg?v=1790835941","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780141198804","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}