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'For me the sketches I produce now and then are shortish or longish chapters of a novel. The novel I am constanly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.? One of the great writers of the twentieth century - and an important influence on Kafka - comes to light in this selection of the best of his short fictions. Through his protagonists - young men of modest means, famous artists, society women, animals endowed with the gift of speech - Robert Walser captures the dislocated unease of life in early twentieth-century Europe.
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Robert Walser was born in Switzerland in 1878 and worked as a bank clerk before becoming a writer. In 1929 he was diagnosed as 'schizophrenic' and lived the last twenty years of his life in hospital. His novels include Jakob von Gunten and The Assistant. Robert Walser died in 1956.
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Walser's flavouring is that of essaying a narrative, then perhaps yes, i think, commenting on his own process as he creates this blending of essay & story-telling. As he approaches a change in mood, so too does the text change with his ebb and flow. Yet, whereas i cannot abide the overwritten zealous Proust, or the sheer same joke told over & over by Beckett, nor moreover, the intellect stomping-ground of Joyce...this, this swiss fella has vibrantly pursued his own course & is easier on the minds-eye. That his musing, changes of tone come across well, suggests he has also met with favourable translators.
These variably aged, differing story-essay-come-hither-glances of literature gathered here, are as ever a delight. The Walk is the longest 'item' involved, & seems to be the back-bone of the book. The other prose-pieces are as ever an exquisite state of 'walserness'. Not unlike being a bit 'pessoan' after & during the Book of Disquiet.
He seems personally, to be writing without guile, without some sinister purpose, with nary a care for impressing the audience. But he does impress upon the audience, with every sense described. He appears to run his prose work like a mouse, a mouse in a maze, but a mouse that occasionally reminding us he also made the maze. Walser is one of those writers who enjoys to remind the reader there are no walls.
These variably aged, differing story-essay-come-hither-glances of literature gathered here, are as ever a delight. The Walk is the longest 'item' involved, & seems to be the back-bone of the book. The other prose-pieces are as ever an exquisite state of 'walserness'. Not unlike being a bit 'pessoan' after & during the Book of Disquiet.
He seems personally, to be writing without guile, without some sinister purpose, with nary a care for impressing the audience. But he does impress upon the audience, with every sense described. He appears to run his prose work like a mouse, a mouse in a maze, but a mouse that occasionally reminding us he also made the maze. Walser is one of those writers who enjoys to remind the reader there are no walls.
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I can't give this book 4 or 5 stars because I was not engaged enough to read all the stories in it.
There are strange stories which hint at terrible mysteries in the ordinariness of life. I enjoyed the longest story "The Walk", but the other stories I read all had the same atmosphere and became a bit "samey".
Odd and interesting.
There are strange stories which hint at terrible mysteries in the ordinariness of life. I enjoyed the longest story "The Walk", but the other stories I read all had the same atmosphere and became a bit "samey".
Odd and interesting.
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Use of words 10/10 and entertainment due to that 10/10
A good fast read without frustration 4/10
my wife and I delve into this small volume and get terrific pleasure in just a few phrases or a page or too.
It is far too slow to tell the story to persist for long, but excellent at the same time.
A good fast read without frustration 4/10
my wife and I delve into this small volume and get terrific pleasure in just a few phrases or a page or too.
It is far too slow to tell the story to persist for long, but excellent at the same time.
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