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Walser's contemporary admirers were few but well-placed. They included Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil, and Walter Benjamin. Today Robert Walser is widely regarded as one of the most important and original literary voices of the twentieth century. In "Masquerade" and Other Stories, Susan Bernofsky presents a representative selection of Walser's work, from his first published fiction to the stately prose of the last years before his voice vanished forever behind the asylum walls. Written between 1899 and 1933, these 64 sketches, scenes, stories, and wanderings through landscapes and dreamscapes are characterized by startling, skewed comparisons, warpings of syntax, vagaries of perspective, and a delight in contradiction. Quirky, playful, and sometimes bizarre, Walser's texts were unconventional by the standards of the early twentieth century. They are still innovative in the context of today's fiction.
Author: Robert Walser
ISBN-10: 0801839777
ISBN-13: 9780801839771
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/19/1990
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.42w x 0.68d
Robert Walser (1878-1956) was born in Biel, Switzerland. Among his four surviving novles in Jakob von Gunten. Susan Bernofsky's fiction, poetry, and translations have appeared in journals in the United States and abroad.
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