The Robber - Softcover

Walser, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803298099 ISBN 13: 9780803298095

Verlag: Bison Books, 2000

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The Robber, Robert Walser&;s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby&;s mouth as an ashtray. Walser&;s novel spoofs the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.

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Robert Walser (1878&;1956), the Swiss-German master of high modernist prose, was once so well known that the novelist Robert Musil, reviewing Franz Kafka&;s first book of stories, described Kafka as &;a special case of the Walser type.&; Susan Bernofsky is an assistant professor of German at Bard College and the translator of short prose by Walser, Masquerade and Other Stories, and Gregor von Rezzori&;s Anecdotage.

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The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby's mouth as an ashtray. Walser's novel spoofs the stiff-upperlipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803298099
• ISBN 13: 9780803298095
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 141
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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