A Schoolboy's Diary: And Other Stories by Walser, Robert

A Schoolboy's Diary: And Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590176726)

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Format: Paperback
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A Schoolboy's Diary: And Other Stories by Walser, Robert

A Schoolboy's Diary: And Other Stories

$14.95
A Schoolboy's Diary: And Other Stories by Walser, Robert

A Schoolboy's Diary: And Other Stories

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Robert Walser
ISBN-10: 1590176723
ISBN-13: 9781590176726
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2013
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/27/2013
By Robert Walser
By Robert Walser
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Robert Walser (1878-1956) was born into a German speaking family in Biel, Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering, precarious existence while writing his poems, novels, and vast numbers of the "prose pieces" that became his hallmark. In 1933 he was confined to a sanatorium, which marked the end of his writing career. Among Walser's works available in English are Berlin Stories and Jakob von Gunten (both available as NYRB classics), Thirty Poems, The Walk, The Tanners, Microscripts, The Assistant, The Robber, Masquerade and Other Stories, and Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932.

Damion Searls is a translator from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch and a writer in English. His own books include What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, The Inkblots, and The Philosophy of Translation. He received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2019 for Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries.

Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry and three novels, mostly recently The Topeka School, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020.

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