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 a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing.Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters-revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald-and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. He is most at home in the mode of short fiction, acc…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-53362-5
- EAN: 9780374533625
- Produktnummer: 12506550
- Verlag: Macmillan USA
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.5 cm 195 g
- Gewicht: 195
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Robert Walser; Foreword by Susan Sontag; Translated from the German by Christopher Middleton and others
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