The Walk (An Extraordinary Classic) - Softcover

Walser, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852422769 ISBN 13: 9781852422769

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1992

Synopsis

'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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Review:

'A truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer? Susan Sontag ?If he had hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place? Hermann Hesse ?His deep and instinctive distaste for everything...that has rank and privilege, makes him an essential writer of our time...? Elias Canetti

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1852422769
• ISBN 13: 9781852422769
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204