Selected Stories
by:
Robert Walser (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781466834958 (1466834951)
Publish date: October 30th 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Oscar Wilde is not the only writer to have made the paradox into a kind of art form. Walser walks a line in these very short stories between looking inward and outward, happiness and sadness, connection and loneliness. In a sketch called "Nervous" a sentence that begins "I am not old, not in the lea...
I finally finished the complete book. I did like it. But I really do believe Susan Bernofsky makes Walser come alive in ways that Middleton, the translator of this particular book, for one reason or another, is unable to accomplish. I would love to re-read a Bernofsky translation of this same book, ...
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