Robert Walser

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Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other StoriesPaperback, 13 September 2016

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Print Length
192 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Date Published
13 Sep 2016
ISBN-10
1681370166
ISBN-13
9781681370163

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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. They are strung together like consciousness, idiosyncratic and vulnerable, genuine in their irony, wistful in their humor. Some dwell on childish or transient topics--carousels, the latest hairstyles, an ekphrasis of the illustrations in a picture book--others on the grand themes of nature, art, and love. But they remain conversational, almost lighter than air. Every emotion ventured takes on the weight of a sincerity that is imperiled as soon as it comes into contact with the outside world, which retains all of the novelty it had in childhood--and all of the danger.

Product Details

Author:
Robert Walser
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
13 September 2016
Dimensions:
21.08 x 13.21 x 0.51 cm
ISBN-10:
1681370166
ISBN-13:
9781681370163
Language:
English
Pages:
192
Weight:
113.4 gm

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