Robert Walser: 23 books

"The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village Voice 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...

La passeggiata è un racconto breve di Robert Walser (1878 -1956), ambientato nei luoghi della sua cittadina natale,la svizzera Bienne nel Cantone Berna, ed è considerato un testo emblematico, nel quale si realizza, con risultati di altissima poesia, la sintesi di cui è maestro Walser: tra incantato...

«Kafka è un caso particolare del tipo Walser», scrisse Robert Musil nel 1914, frase evidentemente ingiusta, ma che pure coglie un nesso essenziale. Grande scrittore che fu amato subito da altri grandi scrittori, come Kafka, Musil o Walter Benjamin, e poi con lentezza, ma sicuramente, ha continuato...

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,...

"La rosa" è l’ultima pubblicazione voluta da Robert Walser nel 1925, prima di entrare nel lungo silenzio degli anni nella clinica per malattie mentali. Di questo libro disse egli stesso all’amica Resy Breitbach: «"La rosa" è uno dei miei libri migliori, dovrebbero prenderlo...

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...

The Assistant by Robert Walser—who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald—is now presented in English for the very first time. Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a...

Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan...

*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;...

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...

Three mini-plays by the German wunderkind and asylum-dweller. 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...

"La passeggiata" (1919) è uno dei testi più perfetti di Walser, il grande scrittore svizzero che ormai, soprattutto dopo la pubblicazione delle sue opere complete, viene posto accanto a Kafka, a Rilke, a Musil – ammesso cioè fra i massimi autori di lingua tedesca del nostro secolo....

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 the finest. The book...

RISVOLTO La meraviglia delle donne e l'incanto dell'amore fanno da leitmotiv a queste pagine postume, un manoscritto del 1926 cui Carl Seelig – mentore di Walser e suo compagno di lunghe passeggiate – diede provvisoriamente il titolo "Diario (sulle donne)", «diario» che costituisce...