Heym, Georg - The Thief. Jonathan.

Georg Heym's "The Thief" (German: Der Dieb) is a collection of German Expressionist tales featuring extreme states like madness, horror, and death, focusing on a man who believes the Mona Lisa is a demonic Babylonian horde, steals it to make it repent, demands it stop smiling, cuts out its eyes and mouth before his home burns, embodying apocalyptic themes, social critique, and the uncanny in a style compared to Poe and Baudelaire.

"Jonathan" is a short story focusing on a young man who loses his legs in a hospital, experiences despair and cruel treatment from staff, finds fleeting hope in a female patient across the hall, but ultimately succumbs to hallucinations and misery.