by RobertWalser (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Published: 12 Dec 2012
ISBN 10: 0374533628
ISBN 13: 9780374533625
[A] great novelist, one of the last century's finest. --The Independent
An excellent introduction to a masterful writer. --Publishers Weekly
Robert Walser was born in Switzerland in 1878. He wrote nine novels and hundreds of stories before being hospitalized for mental illness in 1933. He died in 1956.
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