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  • A Schoolboy's Diary: And Other Stories by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    A Schoolboy's Diary: And Other Stories

    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...
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  • Berlin Stories by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Berlin Stories

    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...
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  • Comedies by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Comedies

    This book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette. 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...
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  • Comedies by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Comedies

    This book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette. 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...
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  • Fairy Tales: Dramolettes by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Fairy Tales: Dramolettes

    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...
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  • Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories

    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; others...
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  • Jakob Von Gunten by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Jakob Von Gunten

    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 Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as...
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  • Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History

    Featuring more than seventy thought-provoking selections drawn from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History, Second Edition, brings to life the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied more than 100 years of jazz history....
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  • Little Snow Landscape by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Little Snow Landscape

    A collection of previously unpublished short prose by one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century fiction. Little Snow Landscape opens in 1905 with an encomium to Robert Walser's homeland and concludes in 1933 with a meditation on his childhood in Biel, the town...
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  • Looking at Pictures by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Looking at Pictures

    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...
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  • Masquerade and Other Stories by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Masquerade and Other Stories

    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...
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  • Microscripts by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Microscripts

    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...
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  • Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser

    Translated from the German by Daniele Pantano. Introduction by Carolyn Forché. OPPRESSIVE LIGHT represents the first collection of Robert Walser's poetry in English translation and an opportunity to experience Walser as he saw himself at the beginning and at the end of his literary...
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  • Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

    A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music, with a new foreword and afterwordWinner of the 1994 Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American MusicDismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions...
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  • Selected Stories by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Selected Stories

    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...
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  • Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932

    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...
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  • The Assistant by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    The Assistant

    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...
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  • The Battle of Sempach A Story by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    The Battle of Sempach A Story

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Robert WalserISBN-10: 1511717122ISBN-13: 9781511717120Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...
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  • The Battle of Sempach: A Story by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    The Battle of Sempach: A Story

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Robert WalserISBN-10: 150024628XISBN-13: 9781500246280Publisher: Createspace Independent...
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  • The Poems by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    The Poems

    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 literature....
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  • The Robber by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    The Robber

    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...
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  • The Walk by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    The Walk

    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...
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  • Thirty Poems by Walser, Robert
    Robert Walser

    Thirty Poems

    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,...
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