Robert Walser
Robert Walser (1878-1956) 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 as a schizophrenic in 1933 and institutionalized for the rest of his life, Walser produced...
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Robert Walser (1878-1956) 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 as a schizophrenic in 1933 and institutionalized for the rest of his life, Walser produced nine novels and more than a thousand stories.
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Birth date: April 15, 1878
Died: December 25, 1956
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2016 NYRB Selection for Sept. Walser's short stories are really more like flash fiction, though that term had not been invented when his work was first published. If you have read Italio Calvino, you might want to try Walser for the writing, magic, and absurdity are very similar, though Calvino i...
So the great Gorey and I have some of the same tastes in fiction. And we both like cats.Some of these stories are well known - such as "The Monkey's Paw", which is one of those stories that never grows stale at all. Others are not, such as "August Heat", a rather chilling tale. What is interesting i...
The Swiss writer Robert Walser, who has become something of a rediscovered literary darling in recent years, notoriously avoided writing anything in Swiss German, considering this to be eine unziemliche Anbiederung an die Masse, an unseemly pandering to the masses. This brief play, not performed or ...
I know I have produced some cringe-worthy reviews lately, but I have been in a cringe-worthy state of mind with some unruly fingers to top it off, so there goes another one.As much as I love literature, I have always felt that it has the tendency to mislead and subsequently create victims of society...
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