Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220996
Over 50 original full-color artworks address newly translated writings of Robert Walser
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN :
Author : Christina Soontornvat
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399545824
New picture book by a two-time Newbery Honor-winning author! The delightful story of an unconventional family of kids who learn the ups and downs of working together. Merra, Locky, Roozle, Finn, and little Jory love their ramble shamble house. It's a lot of work taking care of the garden, the chickens, and themselves, but they all pitch in to make it easier--even Jory, who looks after the mud puddles. When they come across a picture of a "proper" house in a book, they start wondering if their own home is good enough. So they get to work "propering up" the garden, the chickens, and even the mud puddles. But the results aren't exactly what they expected, and when their now-proper household's youngest member goes missing, they realize that their ramble shamble home might be just right for their family, after all.
Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466834951
In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."
Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780811224246
A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art
Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811215909
The Assistant by Robert Walser--who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald--is now presented in English for the very first time.
Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2012
Category : German literature
ISBN : 9780811220330
Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.
Author : Adam Buxton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 000829335X
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘An affectionate and revealing account ... Funny, sad, real, rueful.’ The Times ‘Warm, rambling and self-aware’ Guardian The long-awaited, rambling, tender, and very funny memoir from Adam Buxton
Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811224902
Three mini-plays by the German wunderkind and asylum-dweller. Fairy Tales gathers the unconventional verse dramolettes of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Narrated in Walser's inimitable, playful language, these theatrical pieces overturn traditional notions of the fairy tale, transforming the Brothers Grimm into metatheater, even metareflections. Snow White forgives the evil queen for trying to kill her, Cinderella doubts her prince and enjoys being hated by her evil stepsisters; the Fairy Tale itself is a character who encourages her to stay within the confines of the story. Sleeping Beauty, the royal family, and its retainers are not happy about being woken from their sleep by an absurd, unpretentious, Walser-like hero. Mary and Joseph are taken aback by what lies in store for their baby Jesus.
Author : Carl Seelig
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811221407
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.
