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Running with the Devil(1st Edition)
Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Music/Culture)
by Robert Walser
Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 1993 by Wesleyan
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6260-9, ISBN: 0-8195-6260-2

"A Choice Outstanding Academic Book.A musicologist and cultural critic as well as a professional musician, Robert Walser offers a comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal in Running with the Devil. Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music attracts and embodies cultural conflicts that are central to our society. Walser ex ..."

Comedies
(The German List)
by Robert Walser
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Seagull Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-469-3, ISBN: 0-85742-469-6

"Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little known work has been translated into English, readers have discovered a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildered era. This book brings English-language readers ..."

The Tanners(1st Edition)
by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky, W. G. Sebald, Jo Catling, Winfried Georg Sebald
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2009 by New Directions
ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1589-3, ISBN: 0-8112-1589-X

""The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village VoiceThe Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family—Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the ..."

The Assistant(1st Edition)
(New Directions Paperbook)
by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by New Directions
ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1590-9, ISBN: 0-8112-1590-3

"The Assistant by Robert Walserâwho was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebaldâis now presented in English for the very first time.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 wi ..."

The Robber
by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky
Paperback, 141 Pages, Published 2000 by Bison Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-9809-5, ISBN: 0-8032-9809-9

"... Masquerade and Other Stones, and Gregor von Rezzori's Anecdotage. Cover: Karl Walser (1877-1943): "Nach Natur" (Robert Walser as Karl Moor). Watercolor, painted in 1894, 36.5 x 25 cm, Robert Walser-Archiv Zurich/ Switzerland. © Foundation Gottfried Keller/Museum Neuhaus Biel/Switzer- land. Author photo courtesy of Suhrkamp Verlag University of Nebraska Press Lincoln NE 68588- 0484 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu ISBN 0-8032-9809-9 $15 ..."

"Masquerade" and Other Stories(1st Edition)
by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky, William H. Gass
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1990 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3977-1, ISBN: 0-8018-3977-7

"Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his "true profession." From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed a schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more than a thousand short stories and prose pieces.Walser's contemporary admirers were few but well-placed. They included Franz Kafka, Hermann ..."

Microscripts(1st Edition)
by Robert Kalman Walser, Susan Bernofsky, Maira Kalman, Robert Walser, Professor Robert Walser
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2012 by New Directions / Christine Burgin
ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2033-0, ISBN: 0-8112-2033-8

"Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author’s death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the mic ..."

Jakob von Gunten
(Paperback)
by Robert Walser
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2020 by Serpents Tail
ISBN-13: 978-1-78816-450-4, ISBN: 1-78816-450-4

"First published in 1908, a forerunner to and key influence on the work of writers such as Franz Kafka and Thomas Bernhard, Robert Walser's masterpiece is a paean to infinitesimal unimportance, a celebration of the marginal life that is the ..."

Geschichten
by Robert Walser
Paperback, Published 2019 by Forgotten Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-366-97980-6, ISBN: 0-366-97980-9

Der Spaziergang
by Robert Walser
Paperback, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-428-18325-7, ISBN: 0-428-18325-5

Poetenleben
by Robert Walser
Paperback, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-365-67942-4, ISBN: 0-365-67942-9

Poetenleben
by Robert Walser
Hardcover, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-365-67947-9, ISBN: 0-365-67947-X

Running with the Devil(2nd Edition)
Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Music / Culture)
by Robert Walser, Harris M. Berger
Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2014 by Wesleyan
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7514-2, ISBN: 0-8195-7514-3

"Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the Devil, Robert Walser explores how and why heavy metal works, both musically and socially, and at the same time uses metal to investigate contemporary formations of identity, community, gender, and power. T ..."

Selected Stories
(New York Review Books Classics)
by Professor Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton, Susan Sontag, Robert/ Sont Walser
Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2002 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-0-940322-98-1, ISBN: 0-940322-98-6

Jakob von Gunten(1st Edition)
(New York Review Books (Paperback))
by Robert/ Midd Walser, Christopher Middleton
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1999 by Nyrb Classics
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-940322-21-9, ISBN: 0-940322-21-8

Music/Culture Ser.
Running with the Devil : Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
by Robert Walser
Hardcover, 254 Pages, Published 2000 by University Press Of New England
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-5252-5, ISBN: 0-8195-5252-6

Keeping Time
Readings in Jazz History
by Robert Walser, Oxford University Press, Professor Robert Walser
Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 1998 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509172-4, ISBN: 0-19-509172-8

"Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time lets you experience, first hand, the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied jazz from its very birth. Edited by Robert Walser, these sixty-two thought provoking pieces offer a wealth of insight into jazz. Some of the giants of jazz speak to us here, including Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday, Charles ..."

Keeping Time(2nd Edition)
Readings in Jazz History
by Robert Walser
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1998 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509173-1, ISBN: 0-19-509173-6

"Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History brings to life the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied every moment of jazz history. Highlighting the significance of jazz as a complex and consequential social practice as well as an art form, this book presents a multitude of ways in which people have understood and cared abou ..."

Looking at Pictures(1st Edition)
by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky, Lydia Davis, Christopher Middleton
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2015 by New Directions / Christine Burgin
ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2424-6, ISBN: 0-8112-2424-4

"A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art 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 ..."

Walk(Updated)
(An Extraordinary Classic)
by Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton, Susan Sontag
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1993 by Serpent's Tail
ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-276-9, ISBN: 1-85242-276-9

"'For me the sketches I produce now and then are shortish or longish chapters of a novel. The novel I am constantly 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, ..."

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