{"product_id":"such-a-fazade-madame-is-robert-walser-9781969010071","title":"Such a Façade, Madame, Is Odd: Late Poems and a Lost Novella","description":"\u003ci\u003eSuch a Façade, Madame, Is Odd: Late Poems and a Lost Novella\u003c\/i\u003e is the first English translation of a \"lost\" work by the major Swiss modernist author Robert Walser, along with a selection of his late poems, most in English for the first time. The novella did appear in Walser's \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e under the title \"Diary Fragment, 1926,\" but it has never been published on its own (except in Spanish); translator Damion Searls notes the problem with this title, in that the work is not a diary, not a fragment, and not about 1926. What it is is a pendant to his beloved novella \u003ci\u003eThe Walk\u003c\/i\u003e, though it easily stands on its own: written in Walser's famous miniscule \"microscript,\" it was recopied and reworked into a finished story. Like \u003ci\u003eThe Walk\u003c\/i\u003e, \"A Journal of My Experiences\" provides a selective and very literary chronicle of Walser's daily life in Switzerland: city strolls, country outings, and encounters with various people, including his obsession with one special lady, along with various philosophical and self-reflexive flights of thought and fancy. The poems range in tone from the whimsical to the despairing and reveal the innermost concerns and workings of this singular writer's mind. Presented alongside their German-language originals, Damion Searls's translations of these late poems capture Walser's loopy rhyme schemes and manic melancholy energy in a way that has not been seen in English before. As the \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e asks of Walser's work, \"Are we dealing with pure literature, the vagaries of the everyday, jokes, or empty fancies? The writing is radical and elegant enough to encompass all these possibilities and many more.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Walser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 196901007X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781969010071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turtle Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/17\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Robert Walser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097238806783,"sku":"9781969010071","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/such-a-fazade-madame-is-robert-walser-9781969010071","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}