Robert Walser - Böcker

Rövaren är en roman som Robert Walser skrev under sin 23 år långa vistelse på ett vilohem i Herisau. Han antecknade romanen med mikroskrift på allehanda tillgängliga papper. Den berättar historien om Rövaren, dennes äventyr i samhället och är en l...

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Jakob von Gunten är en dagbok, författad av en ung man som skrivit in sig på Benjamentainstitutet. Vad man mer precist där lär sig är oklart, men det är ett slags tjänarskola. Den författades av Robert Walser under en tid då själv han bodde i Berl...

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Att vi lever i en ond värld samlar ett urval av Robert Walsers sena prosa och mikroskrifter. Inför denna nyutgåva har Peter Handberg reviderat sin översättning och skrivit ett efterord.

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The Institut Benjamenta: a school of humility for the unambitious. The young Jakob von Gunten arrives at this most curious of educational establishments with the goal of becoming 'something very small and subordinate later in life', a go...

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»Man gewinnt, indem man mitten im Gestrudel und Gesprudel ist.« Der Tagebuch-Roman Jakob von Gunten, 1909 publiziert, führt in eine rätselhafte, skurrile Dienerschule hinein, gegen die sich die Titelfigur als »reizende, kugelrunde Null« zu behaupt...

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Dressed in his cheap, battered suit, Joseph Marti arrives at the impressive villa of Karl Tobler, an enthusiastic but ill-starred inventor, to begin employment as his clerk. Tobler is determined to finance his familys lavish lifestyle with the pro...

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Dressed in his cheap, battered suit, Joseph Marti arrives at the impressive villa of Karl Tobler, an enthusiastic but ill-starred inventor, to begin employment as his clerk. Tobler is determined to finance his family s lavish lifestyle with the pr...

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Keeping Time is a collection of source readings on the controversies and critical issues of jazz history. Shifting emphasis away from the widely available facts on the lives and work of the major jazz musicians, it directs attention towards issues...

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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 read...

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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 country road t...

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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 schizoph...

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The Robber, Robert Walsers 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...

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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 (18781956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his merits...

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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.

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A pseudo-biographical "stroll" through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser's short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantl...

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In a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walsers work, Thirty Poems collects famed translator Christopher Middletons favorite poems from the more than five hundred Walser wrote. The illustrations ra...

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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 authors death in 1956.At first consider...

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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 G...

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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, W...

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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, Rober...

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The literature of the Wiener Moderne exhibits biting social satire and other related aspects, first emanating from Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a prolific writer, difficult to classify, who reminds people of Jonathan Swift. Novelists and essayists Herm...

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Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little known work has been translated into English, readers h...

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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 "J...

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In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "e;a good-humored, sweet Beckett."e; The more common comparison is to "e;a comic Kafka."e; Both formulations effectively describe the reading expe...

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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 th...

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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 class...

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