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»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.
»Walser’s lightness is lighter than light,« as Tom Whalen said in Bookforum: »buoyant up to and beyond belief, terrifyingly light.«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.« (book description from the English edition by New Directions)
Robert Walser was born in Biel/Bienne in Switzerland in 1878 and died on a solitary walk in the snow on Christmas Day 1956, near the Herisau sanitarium.
Robert Walser was born in Biel/Bienne in Switzerland in 1878 and died on a solitary walk in the snow on Christmas Day 1956, near the Herisau...
Robert Walser has always inspired visual artists all around the world, including Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the most provocative and innovative contemporary artists, to whom Robert Walser is a...
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Robert Walser as a letter-writer is yet to be discovered. His letters are not merely the private backboard to his work, but an integral part of it. Therefore, the Bern Edition of Walser’s Works opens with a new, comprehensive edition of his letters. They provide insight to the existential conditions of Walser’s »life as a poet« between Zurich, Berlin, Biel, Bern and Herisau.
In...
It is well known that Robert Walser jotted down prose texts, poems and dramatic scenes on more than 500 pieces of paper between 1924 and 1933 in a script that, for decades, was considered...
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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...
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A pseudo-biographical »stroll« through town and countryside rife with philosophic musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser's short prose. Walking features heavily in...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Brazilian Portuguese rights (Siciliano de Livros), Bulgaria (G. Danov)These essays, allegedly published from the estate of a deceased schoolboy, mark the beginning of Robert Walser’s literary career.
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