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.
Peter Wortsman is a freelance translator and journalist. He was a 2010 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and is the author of Modern Way to Die- small stories and microtales, the plays Burning Words and The Tattoed Man Tells All. Wortsman's translations from the German include Telegrams of the Soul- Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg, Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine, Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil, and Peter Schlemiel, the Man Who Sold His Shadow, by Adelbert con Chamisso.
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*The New Yorker*
All twenty-five tales make absolutely riveting reading and are
almost all suitable for reading to children as bedtime stories. As
for the adults - within the pages of Tales of the German
Imagination is a treasury of delicious, old fashioned
story-telling
*The Bay*
A solid collection of classic stories ... a labor of love
*Library Journal*
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