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Jun 3, 2008 · An Introduction to Robert Walser. As a reader of Robert Walser for almost 30 years, I’m pleased to host this discussion of the latest addition to the Walser corpus in English: The Assistant. Strange to think that this delightful, century-old book is now finding English-language readers for the very first time.
In the dark year of 1933, after a reorganisation at Waldau, Walser was committed, against his will, to the clinic at Herisau, where Seelig first visited him in 1936 and encouraged him to resume his interrupted career. ‘I’m not here to write,’ Walser told Seelig firmly. ‘I’m here to be mad.’.
Feb 11, 2015 · In one particularly beautiful passage, Walser writes: The famous scholar’s gait was like an iron law; world history and the afterglow of long-gone heroic deeds flashed out of Professor Meili’s adamant eyes, secreted behind his bushy brows. His hat was like an irremovable ruler.
Literary Estates. 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.
Robert Walser (1878–1956) is considered one of the most mysterious writers of his time. Born in Biel, Switzerland, he left school at the age of fourteen to serve an apprenticeship at a local bank. Walser’s early poems were first published in 1898, and his success allowed him access to Munich’s literary circles.
Quick Reference. (1878–1956), well-known Swiss writer. In his fairy-tale dramolettes ‘Aschenbrödel’ (‘Cinderella’, 1901) and ‘Schneewittchen’ (‘*Snow White’, 1901), he treated the Grimm fairy-tale tradition with irony. Metareflections about these dramolettes are integrated ...
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May 3, 2024 · Robert Walser (born April 15, 1878, Biel, Switz.—died Dec. 25, 1956, Herisau) was a Swiss poet and novelist hailed after his death as a genius. After abandoning his studies at age 14, Walser took accounting lessons and attempted unsuccessfully to become an actor.
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