Description
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, according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories show him at his dazzling best.Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 10/30/2012
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.54w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9780374533625
ISBN10: 0374533628
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
About the Author
Robert Walser was born in Switzerland in 1878. He wrote nine novels and hundreds of stories before being hospitalized for mental illness in 1933. He died in 1956.