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The Walk Main Edition
Author(s): Robert Walser (Author), Susan Sontag (Introduction)
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail
- Publication Date: 15 Jun. 1992
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 204 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781852422769
- ISBN-13: 1852422769
Book Description
‘For me the sketches I produce now and then are shortish or longish chapters of a novel. The novel I am constanly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.? One of the great writers of the twentieth century – and an important influence on Kafka – comes to light in this selection of the best of his short fictions. Through his protagonists – young men of modest means, famous artists, society women, animals endowed with the gift of speech – Robert Walser captures the dislocated unease of life in early twentieth-century Europe.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘A truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer? Susan Sontag ?If he had hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place? Hermann Hesse ?His deep and instinctive distaste for everything…that has rank and privilege, makes him an essential writer of our time…? Elias Canetti
About the Author
Robert Walser was born in Switzerland in 1878 and worked as a bank clerk before becoming a writer. In 1929 he was diagnosed as ‘schizophrenic’ and lived the last twenty years of his life in hospital. His novels include Jakob von Gunten and The Assistant. Robert Walser died in 1956.
