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Jakob von Gunten

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322219
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Jakob von Gunten written by Robert Walser and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most uncanny of schools. It is the work of an outsider artist, a writer of uncompromising originality and disconcerting humor, whose beautiful sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Rousseau.

The Assistant

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215909
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The Assistant written by Robert Walser and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Walks with Walser

Author : Carl Seelig
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811221407
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Walks with Walser written by Carl Seelig and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in English After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser’s friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations. As they strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser famously replied: “I’m not here to write, I’m here to be mad.” Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers the fullest available account of this wonderful writer’s inner and outer life.

Berlin Stories

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174739
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Berlin Stories written by Robert Walser and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 literary magazines as well as the feuilleton sections of newspapers, the early stories are characterized by a joyous urgency and the generosity of an unconventional guide. Later pieces take the form of more personal reflections on the writing process, memories, and character studies. All are full of counter-intuitive images and vignettes of startling clarity, showcasing a unique talent for whom no detail was trivial, at grips with a city diving headlong into modernity.

Clairvoyant of the Small

Author : Susan Bernofsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220642
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Clairvoyant of the Small written by Susan Bernofsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator"Bernofsky takes us into the heart of an artist's life/work struggles, brilliantly illuminating Walser's exquisite sensibility and uncompromising radical innovations, while deftly tracking how his life gradually came apart at the seams. A tragic and intimate portrait."--Amy Sillman "Robert Walser is the perfect pathetic poet: pithy, awkward, drinks too much, sibling rivalrous, ambitious, broke, and mentally ill. Was he proto queer or trans, this red headed writer who next to Gertrude Stein might be the most influential writer of our moment? Riveting and heart-breaking, this biography kept me drunk for days."--Eileen Myles The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest--social outcasts and artists as well as the impoverished, marginalized, and forgotten--prompted W. G. Sebald to dub him "a clairvoyant of the small." His revolutionary use of short prose forms won him the admiration of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Robert Musil, and many others. He was long believed an outsider by conviction, but Susan Bernofsky presents a more nuanced view in this immaculately researched and beautifully written biography. Setting Walser in the context of early twentieth century European history, she provides illuminating analysis of his extraordinary life and work, bearing witness to his "extreme artistic delight."

Selected Stories

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466834951
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Selected Stories written by Robert Walser and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."

The Walk

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 184765505X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Walk written by Robert Walser and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 from the realist to the allegorical, the short fiction collected in this volume demonstrates Walser's uncanny ability to capture both life's strangeness and its small joys.

Speaking to the Rose

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803299702
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Speaking to the Rose written by Robert Walser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 merits--if not with his self-image. After a wandering, precarious life during which he produced poems, essays, stories, and novels, Walser entered an insane asylum, saying, "I am not here to write, but to be mad." Many of the unpublished works he left were in fact written in an idiosyncratically abbreviated script that was for years dismissed as an impenetrable private cipher. Fourteen texts from these so-called pencil manuscripts are included in this volume--rich evidence that Walser's microscripts, rather than the work of incipient madness, were in actuality the product of desperate genius building a last reserve, and as such, a treasure in modern literature. With a brisk preface and a chronology of Walser's life and work, this collection of fifty translations of short prose pieces covers the middle to later years of the writer's oeuvre. It provides unparalleled insight into Walser's creative process, along with a unique opportunity to experience the unfolding of his rare and eccentric gift. His novels The Robber (Nebraska 2000) and Jakob von Gunten are also available in English translation.

A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176928
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories written by Robert Walser and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 reader transfixed.

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681370166
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories written by Robert Walser and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 feuilleton sections of newspapers during Walser’s life; others were jotted down on slips of paper and all but forgotten. They are strung together like consciousness, idiosyncratic and vulnerable, genuine in their irony, wistful in their humor. Some dwell on childish or transient topics—carousels, the latest hairstyles, an ekphrasis of the illustrations in a picture book—others on the grand themes of nature, art, and love. But they remain conversational, almost lighter than air. Every emotion ventured takes on the weight of a sincerity that is imperiled as soon as it comes into contact with the outside world, which retains all of the novelty it had in childhood—and all of the danger.

Oppressive Light

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936873180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Oppressive Light written by Robert Walser and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Translated from the German by Daniele Pantano. Introduction by Carolyn Forché. OPPRESSIVE LIGHT represents the first collection of Robert Walser's poetry in English translation and an opportunity to experience Walser as he saw himself at the beginning and at the end of his literary career--as a poet. The collection also includes notes on dates of composition, draft versions the printed poems represent, which volume of the Werkausgabe the poems were first published in, and brief biographical information on characters and locations that appear in the poems and may not be known to readers.

Provocation from the Periphery

Author : Valerie Heffernan
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN 13 : 9783826032646
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Provocation from the Periphery written by Valerie Heffernan and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Looking at Pictures

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780811224246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Looking at Pictures written by Robert Walser and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art

English, August

Author : Upamanyu Chatterjee
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590171790
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book English, August written by Upamanyu Chatterjee and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, “the hottest town in India,” deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be a lot easier for August than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India. Like A Confederacy of Dunces and The Catcher in the Rye, it is both an inspired and hilarious satire and a timeless story of self-discovery.

Microscripts

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780811220330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Microscripts written by Robert Walser and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

The Tanners

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081121589X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Tanners written by Robert Walser and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village Voice The 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. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family—Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous fabric. Robert Walser—admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin—is a radiantly original author. He has been acclaimed “unforgettable, heart-rending” (J.M. Coetzee), “a bewitched genius” (Newsweek), and “a major, truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer” (Susan Sontag). Considering Walser’s “perfect and serene oddity,” Michael Hofmann in The London Review of Books remarked on the “Buster Keaton-like indomitably sad cheerfulness [that is] most hilariously disturbing.” The Los Angeles Times called him “the dreamy confectionary snowflake of German language fiction. He also might be the single most underrated writer of the 20th century....The gait of his language is quieter than a kitten’s.” “A clairvoyant of the small” W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs.

Narratives Unsettled

Author : Samuel Frederick
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810128179
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Narratives Unsettled written by Samuel Frederick and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives Unsettled argues by way of close readings of three very different German-language writers that only if we conceive of narrativity unburdened by plot can we properly account for radical forms of digression.