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Jun 3, 2008 · Strange to think that this delightful, century-old book is now finding English-language readers for the very first time. But strange indeed is the career—posthumous and otherwise—of this utterly unique prose genius. Beginnings Robert Walser (1878-1956) was born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Biel/Bienne is on the language border dividing ...
by Robert Walser, translated by Tom Whalen, Nicole Köngeter and Annette Wiesner. NYRB, 181 pp., £9.99, October 2016, 978 1 68137 016 3. Best known for his short prose sketches, the idiosyncratic Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) liked to call himself a ‘craftsman novelist’, cobbling together ‘a long, plotless, realistic story’.
Feb 11, 2015 · Robert Walser, the Art of Walking, and Our Daily Dance of Posturing and Sincerity. By Maria Popova. “Go out and walk. That is the glory of life,” Maira Kalman wrote in her magnificent illustrated memoir. In our recent conversation about, oh, life itself, Kalman introduced me to The Walk — a most unusual and rewarding 1917 piece by Swiss ...
Modernism. Robert Walser (15 April 1878 – 25 December 1956) was a German -speaking Swiss writer. He additionally worked as a copyist, an inventor's assistant, a butler, and in various other low-paying trades. Despite marginal early success in his literary career, the popularity of his work gradually diminished over the second and third ...
The novelist Robert Musil even asserted that Franz Kafka’s first book, Betrachtung (1913; Meditation, 1940) was a “special case of the Walser type.” Walser’s fiction appeared both in avant ...
Robert Walser. Throughout his life, Robert Walser described himself as “infinitely unsuccessful”; eighty years after he vanished into psychiatric institutions, and fifty years after his death, Robert Walser has become a classic of modern Swiss literature. His work is now available in collected, selected and individual editions and has been ...
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Oct 24, 2013 · Robert Walser “I am certainly a proponent of the slackard’s life, laziness, happiness and peace,” writes Robert Walser’s narrator in the short piece “In the Military”. Walser, born in Switzerland in 1878, served in the National Guard and lived a precarious existence before ill-health confined him to a sanatorium in 1933.
