Selected Stories

Name: Selected Stories
Brand: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
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By Robert Walser

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In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters-revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald-and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

208

Release Date:

2012-10-30

Publication Date:

2012-10-30

Publisher:

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0374533628

ISBN13:

9780374533625

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

298 g

Height:

143 cm

Width:

210 cm

Thickness:

12 cm

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