Trumen, seiner Fantasie freien Lauf lassen, das macht Robert Walser am liebsten auf seinen Spaziergngen. Die ausgewhlten Erzhlungen sind Miniaturen ber die Sehnsucht nach Geborgenheit in der Natur und beim Mitmenschen.
Trumen, seiner Fantasie freien Lauf lassen, das macht Robert Walser am liebsten auf seinen Spaziergngen. Die ausgewhlten Erzhlungen sind Miniaturen be...
In a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walser s work, Thirty Poems collects famed translator Christopher Middleton s favorite poems from the more than five hundred Walser wrote. The illustrations range from an early poem in perfect copperplate handwriting, to one from a 1927 Czech-German newspaper, to a microscript."
In a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walser s work, Thirty Poems collects famed translator Christ...
Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the microscripts were in time discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of antique German script: a whole story was deciphered on the back of a business card. These twenty-five short pieces address schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, elegant jaunts, the radio, swine, jealousy, and...
Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil...
A New York Review Books Original In 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 city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters' galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Originally appearing in...
A New York Review Books Original In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an importa...
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 classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser's service in World War I. Throughout, Walser's careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the...
A Schoolboy's Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser's strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English....
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 been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse and J.M. Coetzee.
Like Kafka and Sebald, Walser wrote about the solitude and unease of human existence. Honest, wry and idiosyncratic, his stories are snapshots of the lives great artists, poor young men, beautiful women and talking animals alike. Ranging...
Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, "The Walk" reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth...
Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the Devil, Robert Walser explores how and why heavy metal works, both musically and socially, and at the same time uses metal to investigate contemporary formations of identity, community, gender, and power. This edition includes a new foreword by Harris M. Berger contextualizing the work and a new afterword by the author.
Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to at...
Fairy Tales gathers the unconventional verse dramolettes of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Narrated in Walser's inimitable, playful language, these theatrical pieces overturn traditional notions of the fairy tale, transforming the Brothers Grimm into metatheater, even metareflections.
Snow White forgives the evil queen for trying to kill her, Cinderella doubts her prince and enjoys being hated by her evil stepsisters; the Fairy Tale itself is a character who encourages her to stay within the confines of the story. Sleeping Beauty, the royal family, and its retainers are not happy...
Fairy Tales gathers the unconventional verse dramolettes of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Narrated in Walser's inimitable, playful language, thes...
A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard, Brueghel and his own brother Karl and also discuss general topics such as the character of the artist and of the dilettante as well as the differences between painters and poets. Every piece is marked by Walser s unique eye, his delicate sensitivity, and his very particular sensibilities and all are touched by his magic screwball...
A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swis...
Po románech Jakob von Gunten, Sourozenci Tannerovi a Pomocník z počátku 20. století napsal Robert Walser (1878–1956) ještě dva romány, jejichž rukopisy jsou dnes nezvěstné, a konečně v roce 1925 svůj poslední román Loupežník, v němž ze sebe při vzpomínce na Schillerovy Loupežníky a jejich uvedení kolem roku 1895 v Bielu, které ho jako mladíka nadchlo, udělal jakéhosi divocha a loupežníka, neboť tak na sebe i celý život pohlížel. Loupežníkem se uzavře edice Walserových románů v nakladatelství Opus, neboť již žádný další jeho román není...
Po románech Jakob von Gunten, Sourozenci Tannerovi a Pomocník z počátku 20. století napsal Robert Walser (1878–1956) ještě dva romány, jeji...
