Looking At Pictures - Hardcover

Walser Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811224244 ISBN 13: 9780811224246

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2015

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Críticas:

"Walser achieved a remarkable tone, in which perfect assurance and perfect ambiguity combine."--Benjamin Kunkel

"Everyone who reads Walser falls in love with him."--Nicholas Lazard

"Written between 1902 and 1930 and, with two exceptions, previously untranslated, the pieces gathered here elaborate a nervous, slapstick sort of hack journalism that set the stage for a fabulously experimental modernist writing situation whose fans included Kafka, Musil, and Benjamin."--John Kelsey

This jeweled box of a book... float[s], wonderfully, somewhere in a land between short story and criticism.--Randy Kennedy

"A Paul Klee in prose, a good-humoured, sweet Beckett, Walser is a truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer."--Susan Sontag

"Singular--genius."--Ben Lerner

"Bold and idiosyncratic."--Lydia Davis

Reseña del editor:

A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard, Brueghel and his own brother Karl and also discuss general topics such as the character of the artist and of the dilettante as well as the differences between painters and poets. Every piece is marked by Walser’s unique eye, his delicate sensitivity, and his very particular sensibilities—and all are touched by his magic screwball wit.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0811224244
• ISBN 13: 9780811224246
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1