Robert Walser

• Feb-1990
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Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his "true profession." From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed a schizophrenic and hospital...

• Oct-1999
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First published in 1908, the novel is a notebook, a boy's impressions of life at a school for servants run by the brother and sister Benjamenta. The lesson of the school is humility and the rejection of power and ambition. With brilliance, Walser cap...

• Oct-1999
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The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob ...

• Mar-2000
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The Robber, Robert Walser’s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservan...

• Sep-2005
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The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, “If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place,” Robert Walser (1878�"1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his ...

• Mar-2008
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The Assistant by Robert Walser -- who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald -- is now presented in English for the very first time. Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetze...

• Aug-2009
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"The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year." -- The Village VoiceThe Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky...

• May-2010
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W. G. Sebald called Robert Walser “a clairvoyant of the small,” and nowhere is the phrase more apt than in his “microscripts.”

• Oct-2010
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Fiction. Art. Translated from the German by Paul North. Illustrated by Friese Undine. The Swiss author Robert Walser's ANSWER TO AN INQUIRY is a short work written in the form of a letter. Walser assumes the voice of a great man of the theater respon...

• Feb-2012
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A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the cit...

• Jun-2012
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Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless be...

• Nov-2012
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In her preface to Robert Walser’s Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as “a good-humored, sweet Beckett.” The more common comparison is to “a comic Kafka.” Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these s...

• Apr-2013
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Over 50 original full-color artworks address newly translated writings of Robert Walser

A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser is a project initiated by the gallerist Donald Young, who saw in Walser an exemplary figure through whom ...

• Jun-2013
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“Beautiful and haunting” �" The New YorkerSwiss modernist author Robert Walser recounts the Battle of Sempach in brief but violent detail.One day, in the middle of high summer, a military expedition was advancing slowly down the dusty ...

• Sep-2013
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A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete classr...

• Sep-2013
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A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete cla...

• Oct-2016
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Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories brings together eighty-one brief texts spanning Robert Walser’s career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in Bern. Many were published in the feu...

• Mar-2021
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A collection of previously unpublished short prose by one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century fiction.Little Snow Landscape opens in 1905 with an encomium to Robert Walser’s homeland and concludes in 1933 with a meditation on his c...