Description
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 tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser's service in World War I. Throughout, Walser's careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 09/03/2013
Pages: 179
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781590176726
ISBN10: 1590176723
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 09/03/2013
Pages: 179
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781590176726
ISBN10: 1590176723
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
About the Author
Robert Walser (1878-1956) was born into a German speaking family in Biel, Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering, precarious existence while writing his poems, novels, and vast numbers of the "prose pieces" that became his hallmark. In 1933 he was confined to a sanatorium, which marked the end of his writing career. Among Walser's works available in English are Berlin Stories and Jakob von Gunten (both available as NYRB classics), Thirty Poems, The Walk, The Tanners, Microscripts, The Assistant, The Robber, Masquerade and Other Stories, and Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932.