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A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser by Robert Walser
$42.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser is a project initiated by the gallerist Donald Young, who saw in Walser an exemplary figure through whom connections between art and literature could be discussed anew. He invited a group of artists to respond to Walser's writing. A Little Ramble is a resu ...Show more
A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories by Robert Walser
$24.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This new collection of more than seventy stories by the iconic modern writer Robert Walser, includes stories that have appeared in Harper's Magazine, n+1 online, Vice, and elsewhere. Also included is the complete "Fritz Kocher's Essays," the "collected works," so to speak, of a boy who died young, consi ...Show more
Berlin Stories by WALSER ROBERT
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observati ...Show more
Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories brings together 81 brief texts spanning Walser's career, from pieces conceived amidst 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 jotted down on ...Show more
Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Robert Walser's great masterpiece, reissued with a foreword by J. M. Coetzee.
Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser
$24.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
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 ...Show more
Little Snow Landscape by Robert Walser; Tom Whalen (Translator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A collection of previously unpublished short prose by one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century fiction. Little Snow Landscape opens in 1905 with an encomium to Robert Walser's homeland and concludes in 1933 with a meditation on his childhood in Biel, the town of his birth, published in t ...Show more
Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser (Author) , Susan Bernofsky (Columbia University) (Translated by) , Lydia Davis (Translated by) , Christopher Middleton (Translated by)
$43.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
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 ...Show more
Microscripts by Robert Walser & Maira Kalman
$38.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
My Heart Has So Many Flaws: Early Poems by Robert Walser (translated by Kristofor Minta)
$44.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
My Heart Has So Many Flaws collects the early verse of Robert Walser, from his poetic beginnings to the first World War. These poems are Walser at his most unguarded, in which we might "find the intense and intensely odd person behind Walser’s work", a writer in the throes of self-creation, already layi ...Show more