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Att vi lever i en ond värld : prosa, dialoger, dikter

AvRobert Walser

Inbunden, Svenska, 2021

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219 kr

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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.

Sagor och komedier

AvRobert Walser

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

253 kr

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Sagor och komedier är en samling med tio av Robert Walsers pjäser, skrivna mellan 1900 och 1925: Dammen, Diktare, Askungen, Snövit, Gossarna, Kärleksparet, Törnrosa, Kristusbarnet, Dagdrivaren och Felix-scener.

Peter Handberg har översatt och skrivit ett efterord.

Promenaden och Bilden av fadern

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Svenska, 2019

(3)

189 kr

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Vad innebär det att gå till fots genom världen? Vilka möjligheter ryms i en vanlig promenad? Vandringarna i denna schweiziska kortroman, författad av en av det tidiga 1900-talets prosamästare, rör sig i stad och på landsbygd, över åkrar och mellan träd. Det är en fotgängares litterära försvarstal på svenska för första gången av Peter Handberg, och åtföljt av novellen Bilden av fadern.

Rövaren

AvRobert Walser

Inbunden, Svenska, 2022

239 kr

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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 lätt förklädd självbiografi. I romanen får Walsers hela register som författare komma till uttryck.

För första gången översatt till svenska av Peter Handberg som också skrivit ett efterord.

Jakob von Gunten : en dagbok

AvRobert Walser

Inbunden, Svenska, 2021

221 kr

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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 Berlin och gick på betjäntskola. Idag framstår den som ett av Walsers viktigaste verk.

Här föreligger Walsers klassiska roman i ny utgåva. Översättningen har grundligen reviderats av översättaren Ulrika Wallenström. Kritikern Mikaela Blomqvist har skrivit ett efterord.

Assistant

AvRobert Walser

E-bok

Engelska, 2018

97 kr

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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 proceeds from his latest idea – a clock adorned with advertisements. But Tobler’s grand plans are destined for failure and the household, including Marti, refuse to acknowledge their approaching ruin. Robert Walser claimed to have written The Assistant, a semi-autobiographical work, in just six weeks as an entry for a literary competition. The second of his few surviving novels, it is now regarded as major work of modernist literature.

Keeping Time

AvRobert Walser,Robert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

517 kr

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Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time lets you experience, first hand, the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied jazz from its very birth. Edited by Robert Walser, these sixty-two thought provoking pieces offer a wealth of insight into jazz. Some of the giants of jazz speak to us here, including Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus and Wynton Marsalis. And there are pieces by writers such as Langston Hughes, Norman Mailer, and Ralph Ellison, and by critics such as Leonard Feather and Gunther Schuller. Readers will find Louis Armstrong on what makes swing, Dizzy Gillespie on bebop, and Miles Davis on jazz-rock fusion. Equally important, Walser has selected writings that capture the passionate reactions of people who have loved, hated, supported, and argued about jazz. One can read, for instance, a dismissive article written in 1918 that relegates jazz to the "servant's hall of music" along with "the clatter of the clogs, the click of Slavic heels." Or a debate between Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock over the merits of free jazz and electric instruments.Or Duke Ellington's claim that jazz is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but "goes back to something just about as old-and as natural-as the circulation of the blood." In the end, the focus here remains on how the music works and why people have cared about it. Filled with passionately felt, insightful writing, Keeping Time will increase one's historical awareness of jazz even as it provokes lively discussion among jazz aficionados, whether in clubs, concert halls or classrooms.

Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska

1 900 kr

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Selected Stories

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

282 kr

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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 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.

Battle of Sempach

AvRobert Walser

E-bok

Engelska, 2017

18 kr

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“Beautiful and haunting” – The New Yorker

Swiss 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 that led towards a district of Luzern. The bright, actually more than bright, sun dazzled down over swaying armour serving to cover human bodies, over prancing horses, over helmets and parts of faces, over equine heads and tails, over ornaments and plumes and stirrups as big as snowshoes. To the right and to the left of the shining military expedition spread out meadows with thousands of fruit trees in them up as far as hills that, looming up out of the blue-smelling, half-hazy distance, beckoned and had the same effect as light and carefully painted window dressing.

"Masquerade" and Other Stories

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

473 kr

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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 schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more than a thousand short stories and prose pieces. Walser's contemporary admirers were few but well-placed. They included Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil, and Walter Benjamin. Today Robert Walser is widely regarded as one of the most important and original literary voices of the twentieth century. In "Masquerade" and Other Stories, Susan Bernofsky presents a representative selection of Walser's work, from his first published fiction to the stately prose of the last years before his voice vanished forever behind the asylum walls. Written between 1899 and 1933, these 64 sketches, scenes, stories, and wanderings through landscapes and dreamscapes are characterized by startling, skewed comparisons, warpings of syntax, vagaries of perspective, and a delight in contradiction.Quirky, playful, and sometimes bizarre, Walser's texts were unconventional by the standards of the early twentieth century. They are still innovative in the context of today's fiction.

Robber

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

231 kr

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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 teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby's mouth as an ashtray. Walser's novel spoofs the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.

Speaking to the Rose

Writings, 1912-1932

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

215 kr

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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 (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.

Tanners

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

219 kr

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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.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.

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Assistant

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

209 kr

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Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion, and an utterly unique radiance of vision, Walser is as Susan Sontag exclaimed "a truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer."The Assistant is his breathtaking 1908 novel, translated by award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Joseph, hired to become an inventor's new assistant, arrives one rainy Monday morning at Technical Engineer Karl Tobler's splendid hilltop villa: he is at once pleased and terribly worried, a state soon followed by even stickier psychological complexities. He enjoys the beautiful view over Lake Zurich, in the company of the proud wife, Frau Tobler, and the delicious savory meals. But does he deserve any of these pleasures? The Assistant chronicles Joseph's inner life of cascading emotions as he attempts, both frantically and light-heartedly, to help the Tobler household, even as it slides toward financial ruin. Tobler demands of Joseph, "Do you have your wits about you?!" And Joseph's wits are in fact all around him, trembling like leaves in the breeze—he is full of exuberance and despair, all the raptures and panics of a person "drowning in obedience."

Walk

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

215 kr

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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 elegantly considered. Without walking, “I would be dead,” Walser explains, “and my profession, which I love passionately, would be destroyed. Because it is on walks that the lore of nature and the lore of the country are revealed, charming and graceful, to the sense and eyes of the observant walker.” The Walk was the first piece of Walser’s work to appear in English, and the only one translated before his death. However, Walser heavily revised his most famous novella, altering nearly every sentence, rendering the baroque tone of his tale into something more spare. An introduction by translator Susan Bernofsky explains the history of The Walk, and the differences between its two versions.

Thirty Poems

AvRobert Walser

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

230 kr

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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.

Microscripts

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

272 kr

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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 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 marriage proposals.

Fairy Tales

Dramolettes

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

176 kr

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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 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 about being woken from their sleep by an absurd, unpretentious, Walser-like hero. Mary and Joseph are taken aback by what lies in store for their baby Jesus.

Looking at Pictures

AvRobert Walser

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

272 kr

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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, 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 wit.

Selected Short Writings

Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, Robert Walser

AvKarl Kraus,Hermann Brochm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

694 kr

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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 Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Elias Canetti (1905-94), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, were likewise marginalized, to a large extent as Jews. Robert Walser (1878-1956) is Swiss, and to a large extent like the other three authors in this collection, had no less a desire to upset the social applecart. Among the works included are substantive selection from Krauss's "The Last Days of Mankind and Aphorisms", Bloch's "The Anarchist," selections from Canetti's "Crowds and Power and Auto-da-Fe", and Walser's "Jakob von Gunten".

Comedies

AvRobert Walser

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

242 kr

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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 have discovered a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildered era. This book brings English-language readers work by Walser in yet another form: dramolette. The short plays presented here, inspired by the German theater Walser enjoyed in his youth, while never meant to be performed, present scenes, characters, and situations that comment on the brutality of fairy tales, the impossibilities of love, the dark fate of the Christ child (and Walser himself), and more. At the same time, like all of Walser's work they are shot through with a humor that is wholly genuine despite its shades of darkness. Gathering all of Walser's plays, as well as his later, fragmentary dramatic writings, Comedies will be celebrated by the many devoted fans of this lately rediscovered master.

Jakob von Gunten

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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254 kr

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Gehülfe

Roman ......

AvRobert Walser

Inbunden, Tyska, 2023

494 kr

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Gehülfe

Roman ......

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Tyska, 2023

339 kr

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ProsastÃ1/4cke von Robert Walser.

AvRobert Walser

Inbunden, Tyska, 2025

398 kr

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ProsastÃ1/4cke von Robert Walser.

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Tyska, 2025

207 kr

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Geschwister Tanner

AvRobert Walser

Inbunden, Tyska, 2025

431 kr

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Geschwister Tanner

AvRobert Walser

Häftad, Tyska, 2025

308 kr

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Selected Stories

AvRobert Walser

E-bok

Engelska, 2012

151 kr

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Experience the mind-bending genius of Robert Walser, a master of modern literature, in this captivating collection of short stories.In her preface to Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett," while others compare him to "a comic Kafka." These formulations perfectly capture the unique reading experience of Walser''s works: a delightful blend of wit, charm, and unsettling brilliance.Revered by literary giants such as Walter Benjamin, Hermann Hesse, and W. G. Sebald, Walser shines brightest in the realm of short fiction. As J. M. Coetzee notes in The New York Review of Books, these stories "show him at his dazzling best."Selected Stories showcases the full range of Walser''s talent, treating readers to a delightful mix of humor, insight, and literary artistry. Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of one of the twentieth century''s most original and influential writers.