Robert walser books list of books by author robert walser. In this new collection of his stories, girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories, translated by tom whalen with nicole kongeter and annette wiesner, everything feels like spring. Sep 16, 2016 four never before published stories by robert walser. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories brings together eightyone brief texts spanning robert walsers career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in bern. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories brings together eightyone brief texts spanning robert. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories walser robert. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories quotes by robert walser. See all books authored by robert walser, including the haunted looking glass. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories brings together eightyone brief texts spanningrobert walser s career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs tolater works written at a psychiatric clinic in bern.
Many were published in the feuilleton sections of newspapers during walsers life. Please visit their website for a fantastic selection of titles, including more of walsers books in translation. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories by robert walser 2016. Robert walser 15 april 1878 25 december 1956 was a germanspeaking swiss writer walser is understood to be the missing link between kleist and kafka. Nov 04, 2016 robert walser, girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories nyrb, 2016 feuilleton. The lingering ghosts of an authors oeuvre electric literature.
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Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories ebook por robert. Many were published in thefeuilleton sections of newspapers during walser s life. By robert walser translated by tom whalen with nicole kongeter and annette wiesner girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories brings together eightyone brief texts spanning robert walsers career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in bern. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories by robert walser. The title suggests a miscellany, which this collection of 88 short pieces certainly delivers.
Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories ebook by robert. Many were published in the feuilleton sections of newspapers during. Traditionally, a feuilleton is a portion at the bottom of a french newspaper that is kept free for light literature, criticism, and commentary. Robert walser, girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories nyrb, 2016 feuilleton. Robert walser, girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories book king county. The following stories by robert walser, newly translated by tom whalen, are drawn from girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories. On robert walsers idiosyncratic, whimsical, sly, and. Four never before published stories by robert walser.
Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories quotes showing 11 of 1 how you were moved by a child in its mothers arms, how you saw an old man on his deathbed, and how it was your father who lay there dead, who had passed on to the silent deadremember this, remember this. These sketches, essays, parables, prose poems, newspaper pieces, maybe even diary entries by the enigmatic swiss author a schoolboys diary, 20, etc. Robert walser was born in 1878 in biel in the canton of bern, the seventh of eight children. Remember there is life and there is death, remember there are moments of bliss and there are graves. Sep, 2016 robert walsers works stand in a class by themselves. 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. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories ebook, 2016. Robert walser s works stand in a class by themselves. He had the ability to present common things and daytoday life in a new light and reveal an unknown side of them.
Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories walser robert download. Sep 15, 2016 girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories brings together eightyone brief texts spanning robert walsers career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in bern. Girlfriends, ghosts and other stories by robert walser. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories by robert walser tom. Many were published in the feuilleton sections of newspapers during walser s life. Drawing by karl walser from robert walser gedichte, 19081909. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories robert walser 18781956 was born into a germanspeaking family in biel, switzerland. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories ebook online read. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories includes eightyeight short prose pieces written between 1907 and 1933, arranged chronologically and translated into beautifully lively english. Please visit their website for a fantastic selection of titles, including more of walser s books in translation. Somehow i had never read him and my life before seems poor and empty.
Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories brings together eightyone brief texts spanning robert walser s career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in bern. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories seattle public. This book is a major addition to the body of robert walsers work in english translation. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories book, 2016 worldcat. Robert walser girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories. Robert walser 18781956 was born into a germanspeaking. Girlfriends, ghosts, and other stories ebook by robert walser. The subject matter is completely different in each storythey are eightyeight surprises. Walser is understood to be the missing link between kleist and kafka.
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