Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg BachmannBy: 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