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During his short life, Georg Heym (1887-1912) managed to publish only one collection of poems, “Der Ewige Tag” (1911). At the age of just twenty-four, he drowned while skating on the Havel River. But he had left behind a wealth of unpublished material: poems, diary entries, plays and short stories. And now, almost a hundred years after his death, he stands out, together with Georg Trakl and Gottfried Benn, as one of the pioneers of German expressionism.

He was deeply influenced by Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and an innovator of both German poetry and prose. The seven short stories presented here “violent and dark stories of insanity, religious fanaticism, crime, social revolt, death and despair” constitute all the short stories that Heym completed during his lifetime.

Title: The Thief – a Book of Short Stories
Original title: Der Dieb. Ein novellenbuch.
Author: Georg Heym
Language: Swedish
Translator: Arthur Isfelt
Designer: Oskar Aspman

Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 106
Published: February 2007

ISBN: 9789189633131

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Alastor Press is a Swedish independent publisher with a focus on literature that moves in the dark, esoteric and artistically distinctive. The publisher is known for its careful editions of both classic and contemporary works in areas such as decadence, symbolism, horror and philosophical fiction. With an eye for the obscure and cult, Alastor Press highlights writing that challenges, seduces and lingers.