The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, 'If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place', Robert Walser (1878-1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his merits - if not with his self-image. After a wandering, [...]

In a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walser s work, Thirty Poems collects famed translator Christopher Middleton s favorite poems from the more than five hundred Walser wrote. The illustrations range from an early poem in perfect copperplate handw[...]

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-[...]

A pseudo-biographical stroll through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser s short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantly considered. Without walking, I would be dead, Walser explains, [...]

A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser is a project initiated by the gallerist Donald Young, who saw in Walser an exemplary figure through whom connections between art and literature could be discussed anew. He invited a group of artists to respond to Walser's writing. A Little Ramble is a [...]

This new collection of more than seventy stories by the iconic modern writer Robert Walser, includes stories that have appeared in "Harper's Magazine," "n+1" online, "Vice," and elsewhere. Also included is the complete "Fritz Kocher's Essays," the "collected works," so to speak, of a boy who died yo[...]

Poetry. Translated from the German by Daniele Pantano. Introduction by Carolyn Forche. OPPRESSIVE LIGHT represents the first collection of Robert Walser's poetry in English translation and an opportunity to experience Walser as he saw himself at the beginning and at the end of his literary career--a[...]

"Robert Walsers Protagonisten leben in Verhältnissen, die sie zu einer zwar brauchbaren, 'aber guten runden Null machen' und zur bitteren Erkenntnis gelangen lassen: 'Schnarchen und Schlafen ist besser als Dichten und Denken.' Auch Helbling, Bankangestellter, gehört zu den großen Zweiflern: 'Ich [...]

Robert Walser gilt heute als einer der wichtigsten Prosa-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Obwohl er mit seinen Romanen -Geschwister Tanner-, -Der Gehulfe- und -Jakob von Gunten- in Literatenkreisen fruh eine gewisse Bekanntheit erwarb, bewegte sich Walser Zeit seines Lebens an den Randern der Gesellsch[...]