Author: Agnes CardinalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Figure of Paradox in the Work of Robert Walser
Author: Agnes CardinalProvocation from the Periphery
Author: Valerie HeffernanPublisher: Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN: 9783826032646
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Little Snow Landscape
Author: Robert WalserPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A collection of previously unpublished short prose by one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century fiction.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 the last of his four years in the cantonal mental hospital in Waldau outside Bern. Between these two poles, the book maps Walser’s outer and inner wanderings in various narrative modes. Here you find him writing in the persona of a girl composing an essay on the seasons, of Don Juan at the moment he senses he’s outplayed his role, and of Turkey’s last sultan shortly after he’s deposed. In other stories, a man falls in love with the heroine of the penny dreadful he’s reading (and she with him?), and the lady of a house catches her servant spread out on the divan casually reading a classic. Three longer autobiographical stories—“Wenzel,” “Würzburg,” and “Louise”—brace the whole. In addition to a representative offering of Walser’s short prose, of which he was one of literature’s most original, multifarious, and lucid practitioners, Little Snow Landscape forms a kind of novel, however apparently plotless, from the vast unfinishable one he was constantly writing.
Monatshefte
Author: Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet
Author: British LibraryPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111576698
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Review of Contemporary Fiction
Author: Robert Walser
Author: Samuel FrederickPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810137143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) is now recognized as one of the most important European authors of the modernist period, having garnered high praise from such prominent voices as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and J. M. Coetzee. Robert Walser: A Companion is the first comprehensive guide to Walser’s work in English. The twelve essays in this collection examine Walser’s literary output, historical milieu, and idiosyncratic writing process, addressing aspects of his biography; discussing the various genres in which he wrote (the novel, short prose, drama, lyric poetry, and letters); and analyzing his best-known novels and short stories alongside lesser-known but no less fascinating poems, plays, and prose pieces. An essential addition to the scholarship about this eccentric, prolific, and influential writer’s work, Robert Walser: A Companion will be of interest both to established scholars and to those coming to Walser for the first time.
Theory and Patterns of Tragedy in the Later Novellen of Theodor Storm
Author: Barbara BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tragedy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Jakob von Gunten
Author: Robert WalserPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9780940322219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
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 artist, a writer of uncompromising originality and disconcerting humor, whose beautiful sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Rousseau.
Contemporary Authors
Author: Terrie M. RooneyPublisher: Contemporary Authors
ISBN: 9780787620028
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors®. Authors in this volume include: Robert W. Chambers William Jefferson Clinton Paul Ruebens Timberlake Wertenbaker