Robert Walser – författare
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Berlin Stories
Häftad, 2012
130 kr
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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 the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately …
Jakob von Gunten : en dagbok
Inbunden, 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 …
Microscripts
Häftad, 2012
279 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 …
Poems
Av Robert Walser, Daniele Pantano
Inbunden, 2023
346 kr
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The first complete publication of Robert Walser’s poems translated into English.Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin and acclaimed “unforgettable, heart-rending” by J. M. Coetzee, Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) remains one of the most influential authors of modern …
Att vi lever i en ond värld : prosa, dialoger, dikter
Inbunden, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
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
Inbunden, 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
Häftad, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (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 …
Rövaren
Inbunden, 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 …
Selected Stories
Häftad, 2012
279 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 …
"Masquerade" and Other Stories
Häftad, 1990
504 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 …
Walk
Häftad, 2012
138 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 …
Jakob von Gunten
Häftad, 2020
139 kr
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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 goal he sets about achieving with laconic dedication and wry …
Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories
Häftad, 2013
198 kr
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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 classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically …
Assistant
Häftad, 2007
214 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 …
Robber
Häftad, 2000
235 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 …
Fairy Tales
Dramolettes
Häftad, 2015
181 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 …
Girlfriends, Ghosts, And Other Stories
Av Annette Wiesner, Nicole Köngeter m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
215 kr
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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; …
Looking at Pictures
Inbunden, 2015
279 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 …
Thirty Poems
Inbunden, 2012
237 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 …
Assistant
E-bok, 2018
102 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 …
Speaking to the Rose
Writings, 1912-1932
Häftad, 2005
220 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, …
Tanners
Häftad, 2009
226 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, …
