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Fairy Tales gathers the unconventional verse dramolettes of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Narrated in Walser's inimitable, playful language, these theatrical pieces overturn traditional notions of the fairy tale, transforming the Brothers Grimm into metatheater, even metareflections. Snow White forgives the evil queen for trying to kill her, Cinderella doubts her prince and enjoys being hated by her evil stepsisters, the Fairy Tale itself is...

Título original: Der Gehülfe

 

El ayudante cuenta, con una ironía extraordinaria, la historia del ingeniero Tobler, que se separó de su mujer y sus cuatro hijos después de arruinarse, proceso al que asistirá paso a paso, y de la manera más sumisa, su fiel empleado Joseph. Walser narra una experiencia autobiográfica, apenas alterada, después de trabajar seis me...

Composti tra il 1902 e il 1936, questi ritratti raccontano di Goethe, Schiller e Hölderlin, di Kleist, Dickens e Dostoevskij, ma al tempo stesso dicono molto anche di Walser, delle sue inclinazioni, idiosincrasie e gusti. Scelti per empatia o contrasto, per intima risonanza o alterità inconciliabile, gli scrittori su cui si sofferma sono protagonisti di piccole gemme o figure di quel teatro da cui lo scrittore fu sempre attratto. "Scrivere sig...

Attratto per un'intera vita dal teatro, come dimostrano i suoi "Ritratti di scrittori", Walser nutrì una passione altrettanto incoercibile per le arti figurative, anche in virtù dell'influsso esercitato dal fratello Karl, artista di rara finezza. Ma i quadri davanti ai quali si sofferma in queste pagine sono spesso un pretesto: per parlare di sé e dei ricordi di gioventù, per costruire catene di associazioni - ispirate, magari, da una mostra d...

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A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard, Brueghel and his own brother Karl and also discuss general topics such as the character of the artist and of the dilettante as well as the differences between painters and poets. Ev...

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Escritos entre 1924 y 1932, los microgramas son el testamento literario de Robert Walser. Se trata de una colección de 526 hojas y papeles de distinto formato densamente cubiertos de una letra minúscula, escritos a lápiz e ilegibles a primera vista. La minuciosa labor de Werner Morlang y Bernhard Echte, que dedicaron más de quince años a descifrarlos letra a letra, puso fin al desconcierto y reveló como una colección de textos breves, poemas y...

In De wandeling vlucht een schrijver weg van het lege vel papier voor hem, naar buiten. Hij wandelt door een kleine stad en door bos en open veld, opmerkzaam op elk detail. Zo nu en dan ontmoet hij iemand, zoals een boekhandelaar, een belastinginspecteur, een dame, een zingend meisje en een reusachtige man genaamd Tomtsjak. Aan het slot worden de randen van zijn gemoed steeds donkerder. De wandeling wordt wel gezien als een allegorie op het sc...

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A pseudo-biographical "stroll" through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser's short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantly considered. Without walking, "I would be dead, " Walser explains, "and my profession, which I love passionately, would be destroyed. Because it is on walks that the lore of nature and the lore of the country ...

»Vor den Augen des scheinbar von einer Reise herkommenden Mannes war auf einem Emailleschild zu lesen: C. Tobler, technisches Bureau. Er wartete noch einen Moment, wie um über irgend etwas gewiß sehr Belangloses nachzudenken, dann drückte er auf den Knopf der elektrischen Klingel, worauf eine Person kam, allem Anschein nach eine Magd, um ihn eintreten zu lassen.«Ein halbes Jahr lang ist Joseph Marti im Hause Tobler als Kommis angestellt. Währe...

The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most uncanny of schools. It is the work of an outsider ar...

Je leert hier heel weinig, er zijn onvoldoende leerkrachten, en wij jongens van het Instituut Benjamenta zullen het tot niets brengen, d.w.z. dat we allemaal in ons latere leven iets heel kleins en ondergeschikts zullen zijn.' Zo begint Jakob von Gunten, alom beschouwd als de beste roman uit het rijke oeuvre van Robert Walser. Het is het tragikomische verhaal over de moeizame schooltijd van de jonge, oneerbiedige Jakob, telg uit een nobel gesl...

Mi pareva tutto così strano, come se non l'avessi mai vista e la vedessi per la prima volta nella mia vita. Viaggiavo in treno attraverso la montagna. Era sera e il sole era così bello. Le montagne mi sembravano così grandi, così possenti, e lo erano davvero. Sono l'altitudine e la profondità a far sì che un paese diventi così ricco e grande, guadagni spazio. La natura montana mi appariva prodiga con quelle formazioni rocciose che si erigevano...

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Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion, and an utterly unique radiance of vision, Walser is as Susan Sontag exclaimed "a truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer." The Assistant is his breathtaki...