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The Walk by Robert Walser

The Walk by Robert Walser

One of the great works of European short fiction, by turns funny, reflective and profound


Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse and J.M. Coetzee.

Like Kafka and Sebald, Walser wrote about the solitude and unease of human existence. Honest, wry and idiosyncratic, his stories are snapshots of the lives great artists, poor young men, beautiful women and talking animals alike. Ranging from the realist to the allegorical, the short fiction collected in this volume demonstrates Walser's uncanny ability to capture both life's strangeness and its small joys.

(Profile Books)

The Walk by Robert Walser

Author

Robert Walser

Publisher

Profile Books

 Year Published

2013

Number of Pages

224

Book Type

Short Story Collection

Genres

Translated Fiction

Country

Swiss Writing

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