Robert Walser
DOWNLOAD
Download Robert Walser PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Robert Walser book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Robert Walser
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Robert Walser written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Robert Walser
DOWNLOAD
Author : Catherine Sauvat
language : fr
Publisher: Editions du Rocher
Release Date : 2002
Robert Walser written by Catherine Sauvat and has been published by Editions du Rocher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Authors, Swiss categories.
Jakob Von Gunten
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert Walser
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2014-03-05
Jakob Von Gunten written by Robert Walser and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-05 with Fiction categories.
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.
Clairvoyant Of The Small
DOWNLOAD
Author : Susan Bernofsky
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021
Clairvoyant Of The Small written by Susan Bernofsky and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Authors, Swiss categories.
The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator"Bernofsky takes us into the heart of an artist's life/work struggles, brilliantly illuminating Walser's exquisite sensibility and uncompromising radical innovations, while deftly tracking how his life gradually came apart at the seams. A tragic and intimate portrait."--Amy Sillman "Robert Walser is the perfect pathetic poet: pithy, awkward, drinks too much, sibling rivalrous, ambitious, broke, and mentally ill. Was he proto queer or trans, this red headed writer who next to Gertrude Stein might be the most influential writer of our moment? Riveting and heart-breaking, this biography kept me drunk for days."--Eileen Myles The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest--social outcasts and artists as well as the impoverished, marginalized, and forgotten--prompted W. G. Sebald to dub him "a clairvoyant of the small." His revolutionary use of short prose forms won him the admiration of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Robert Musil, and many others. He was long believed an outsider by conviction, but Susan Bernofsky presents a more nuanced view in this immaculately researched and beautifully written biography. Setting Walser in the context of early twentieth century European history, she provides illuminating analysis of his extraordinary life and work, bearing witness to his "extreme artistic delight."
A Schoolboy S Diary And Other Stories
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert Walser
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2013-09-03
A Schoolboy S Diary And Other Stories written by Robert Walser and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-03 with Fiction categories.
A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser’s service in World War I. Throughout, Walser’s careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.
Robert Walser
DOWNLOAD
Author : Samuel Frederick
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-15
Robert Walser written by Samuel Frederick and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Assistant
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert Walser
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-11-08
The Assistant written by Robert Walser and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-08 with Fiction categories.
Dressed in his cheap, battered suit, Joseph Marti arrives at the impressive villa of Karl Tobler, an enthusiastic but ill-starred inventor, to begin employment as his clerk. Tobler is determined to finance his family’s lavish lifestyle with the proceeds from his latest idea – a clock adorned with advertisements. But Tobler’s grand plans are destined for failure and the household, including Marti, refuse to acknowledge their approaching ruin. Robert Walser claimed to have written The Assistant, a semi-autobiographical work, in just six weeks as an entry for a literary competition. The second of his few surviving novels, it is now regarded as major work of modernist literature.
Berlin Stories
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert Walser
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2012-01-24
Berlin Stories written by Robert Walser and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-24 with Fiction categories.
A New York Review Books Original 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 observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters’ galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Originally appearing in literary magazines as well as the feuilleton sections of newspapers, the early stories are characterized by a joyous urgency and the generosity of an unconventional guide. Later pieces take the form of more personal reflections on the writing process, memories, and character studies. All are full of counter-intuitive images and vignettes of startling clarity, showcasing a unique talent for whom no detail was trivial, at grips with a city diving headlong into modernity.
Walks With Walser
DOWNLOAD
Author : Carl Seelig
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2017-04-25
Walks With Walser written by Carl Seelig and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in English After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser’s friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations. As they strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser famously replied: “I’m not here to write, I’m here to be mad.” Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers the fullest available account of this wonderful writer’s inner and outer life.
Running With The Devil
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert Walser
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-05
Running With The Devil written by Robert Walser and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-05 with Music categories.
“A solid, scholarly analysis of the power, meaning, musical structure, and sociopolitical contexts of the most popular examples of heavy metal.” —Library Journal 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. This edition includes a new foreword by Harris M. Berger contextualizing the work and a new afterword by the author. Ebook Edition Note: all photographs (sixteen) have been redacted. “Walser belongs to a small but influential group of academics trying to reconcile ‘high theory’ with a streetwise sense of culture . . . an excellent book.” —Rolling Stone “Takes musicology where it has never gone before; I once saw the chapter on metal guitarists and the classical tradition performed live in a lecture hall, but even on paper it smokes.” —SF Weekly “Walser is truly gifted at doing what few critics before him have done: analyzing the music . . . In virtuoso readings of metal music that forge persuasive links between metal and particular classical music traditions, Walser reveals the ways that musical structures themselves are social texts.” —The Nation “Making surprising connections to classical forms and debunking stereotypes of metal’s musical crudity, Walser delves enthusiastically into guitar conventions and rituals.” —The Washington Post