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Books by Robert Walser
  | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Stories (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Walser, Tom Whalen, Annette Wiesner, Nicole Kongeter, Nicole Keongeter Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2016 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-016-3, ISBN: 1-68137-016-6 "Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories brings together eighty-one brief texts spanning Robert Walser’s career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in Bern. Many were published in the feuilleton sections of newspapers during Walser’s life; others were jotted down on slips of paper and all but forgotten. Together they string together small nutshells of consciousness, idiosyncratic a ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Der Spaziergang by Robert Walser Paperback, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-428-18325-7, ISBN: 0-428-18325-5 |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Speaking to the Rose Writings, 1912-1932 by Robert Walser 134 Pages, Published 2016 by U Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-9970-2, ISBN: 0-8032-9970-2 "... not too spacious but stylishly maintained, discreet, somehow imposing palace on the lake, on the seashore, the river, ... because it was so large, so beautiful, so inviting and welcoming, like a lady's hat, green in summer, yellow and red in the ... their glorious imperial hands in the delicate, subtle, indulgent water, letting themselves be caressed by its soft, sweet, cooling mouth, as they traveled over this prettily yet gra ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Music Culture Running with the Devil : Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music by Robert Walser 268 Pages, Published 2014 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7515-9, ISBN: 0-8195-7515-1 "see from Stuessy's own plan for a “final solution” to the problem of heavy metal. Stuessy's status as a professor of music makes him a useful ally to those who would strip heavy metal of First Amendment protections as free artistic expression , for he is able to offer an aggressive twist on the usual mystification that elevates classical music and protects it from ideological critique, leaving popular musics more vulnerable to attac ..." |
 | | Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser 200 Pages, Published 2014 by New York Review Of Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-818-8, ISBN: 1-59017-818-1 "Walser's first book, Fritz Kochers Aufsatze, was published by Insel Verlag in 1904 , with illustrations by Karl. It was during the previous year, 1903, that Walser had worked as assistant to an unsuccessful inventor, Karl Dubler-Grassle, at Wadenswil near Zurich: this supplied the setting for his second novel, Der Gehiilfe (1908). His first novel, Geschwister Tanner (1906), is a meandering impressionist version of his wanderings in ..." |
 | | The Walk by Robert Walser 197 Pages, Published 2013 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84765-505-9, ISBN: 1-84765-505-X "Robert Walser ... pieces of scenery, so that, wearing a black overcoat, you can walk up some stairs or look out at a window, then utter a roar, a short, leonine, thick, heavy roar, to make people really believe that a soul is roaring, a human heart." |
 | | The Walk (Serpent's Tail Classics) by Robert Walser Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-84668-958-1, ISBN: 1-84668-958-9 "Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse and J.M. Coetzee. Like Kafka and Sebald, Walser wrote about the solitude and unease of human existence. ..." |
 | | A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories by Robert Walser 208 Pages, Published 2013 by New York Review Of Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-692-4, ISBN: 1-59017-692-8 "Middleton's translations were my first, magnificent introduction to W'alser's work. Susan Bernofsky has translated Walser's other three novels and four volumes of Walser's stories, and many other fine translators have published Walser ..." |
 | | FSG Classics Selected Stories by Robert Walser 208 Pages, Published 2012 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-3495-8, ISBN: 1-4668-3495-1 "Nervous. I AM a little worn out, raddled, squashed, downtrodden, shot full of holes. Mortars have mortared me to bits. ... I am aging, fading alittle, but that doesn't matter; I am not yet altogether old, though I am probably alittle nervous and over ..." |
 | | The Tanners by Robert Walser, Shūsaku Endō 360 Pages, Published 2009 by New Directions Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2132-0, ISBN: 0-8112-2132-6 ""The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village Voice The 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 ..." |
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