by Hans Fallada · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141392851
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«Tales from the Underworld» is Hans Fallada's collection of short stories, published by Penguin Books in paperback, 320 pages, in English.
The stories move between crime and everyday life: thieves who barely manage to live off their heists, families who count every mark, a prisoner who jumps from a moving train, and a ring lost among potatoes. With black humor and a lucid gaze, Fallada portrays ordinary people dragged along by money, love and addiction.
Published in 2014 in the Penguin Modern Classics series, edited and translated by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Jenny Williams.
For readers of short fiction, twentieth-century German literature and classic European fiction.
Hans Fallada was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947). His works belong predominantly to the New Objectivity literary style, a style associated with an emotionless reportage approach, with precision of detail, and a veneration for 'the fact'. Fallada's pseudonym derives from a combination of characters found in Grimms' Fairy Tales: The titular protagonist of Hans in Luck, and Fallada the magical talking horse in The Goose Girl.
