Death from Reval

Death from Reval (German: Der Tod von Reval. Kuriose Geschichten aus einer alten Stadt, lit. 'The Death from Reval: Curious Stories from an Old City') is a 1939 short story collection by the German writer Werner Bergengruen. It consists of stories set in the Tallinn area, all relating to death in one way or another.^[1]

Death from Reval

Title page of German language original, Der Tod von Reval. Kuriose Geschichten aus einer alten Stadt (1965 edition)
Author	Werner Bergengruen
Original title	Der Tod von Reval
Translator	Albrecht Classen
Language	German
Publisher	Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt [de]
Publication date	1939
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	27 May 2021
Pages	177

It is Bergengruen's most famous work.^[2][3] Along with several other stories by Bergengruen, the entirety of Death from Reval was translated to English by Albrecht Classen and published in the 2021 volume Short Stories by Werner Bergengruen: A Selection of His Novellas.^[4]

Contents

• Prologue: "The City of the Dead"
• "Report about the Course of Life and the Course of Death of a Curious Man"
• "The Sea Devil"
• "Jakubson's Refuge"
• "The Curious Guesthouse"
• "Kaddri in the Fishing Hole"
• "Schneider and his Obelisk"
• "The Head"
• "The Yellow Funeral Vanguard"
• Epilogue: "Good-Bye"