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Still Small Voice.(Robert Walser and his works)
In "Jakob von Gunten," the 1909 novel by the German-speaking Swiss writer Robert Walser, the hero adopts the motto "To be small and to stay small." The words apply just as well to Walser himself, whose life and work played out as a relentless diminuendo. The up-and-coming young novelist of the period before the First World War, capable of producing three novels in as many years, turned to shorter forms, and saw his audience and his income dwindle gradually through the war years and the nineteen-twenties. Once a fixture of smart Berlin society, Walser exchanged the world of salons for a series of tiny furnished rooms and, finally, in 1929, a mental institution. Even his ...
- Provocation from the Periphery: Robert Walser Re-examined.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Pender, Malcolm October 1, 2008 700+ words
...Provocation from the Periphery: Robert Walser Re-examined. By VALERIE HEFFERNAN...rise in the status of the work of Robert Walser has been one of the most significant...century. The foundations for Walser's contemporary reputation were...
- A Note on Robert Walser and The Robber (1925).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Chicago Review BERNOFSKY, SUSAN June 22, 1999 700+ words
Robert Walser (1878--1956), the Swiss-German...described Kafka as a "special case of the Walser type." Kafka was among Walser's contemporary...text as we are likely ever to have: Robert Walser, Aus dem Bleistifigebiet 3 (Frankfurt...
- Robert Walser. Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Dewey, Joseph September 22, 2005 700+ words
Robert Walser. Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932. Trans...be the remainder of his unhappy life, the eccentric Robert Walser wrote a sketch about a lion tamer. As Walser details the lonely figure who must confront the beauty...
- Robert Walser: The Robber.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: International Fiction Review Schmidt, Josef January 1, 2007 700+ words
Robert Walser The Robber Trans. and introd, by Susan Bernofsky Lincoln...this attractive volume shows a watercolor portrait of young Robert Walser as Karl Moor by brother Karl Walser (1894). Reviewed by Josef Schmidt
- "schimmern, glitzern, bloden, traumen, eilen und stolpern": Robert Walser's...
- Magazine article from: The Germanic Review Garloff, Katja January 1, 1996 700+ words
...und zugleich blindigen.(1) Robert Walser, who wrote these lines some years...4) I attempt here to reassess Robert Walser's encounter with the modem city...can be derived from the themes of Walser's early pieces, a significant...
- Beneficent irrelevancies: Robert Walser and The Robber.
- Magazine article from: Hollins Critic Whalen, Tom February 1, 2003 700+ words
...Failure I imagine the Swiss-German Robert Walser (1878-1956) might smile at embraces...writers," as Elias Canetti wrote of Walser. How to understand a writer whose...lack of talent?" In the world of Walser's fiction, at times more maze...
- 'Ich schreibe hier dekorativ': Essays zu Robert Walser.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Skrine, Peter April 1, 2008 700+ words
...schreibe hier dekorativ': Essays zu Robert Walser. By Peter Gronau. Wurzburg...the essence of Walser the man and Walser the poet fifty years after his...ist sich seiner Sache sicher. Robert Walser ist es nicht,' writes Gronau...
- Robert Walser. The Tanners.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Lain, Gary June 22, 2009 700+ words
Robert Walser. The Tanners. Intro. W. G. Sebald. Trans. and afterword Susan Bernofsky. New Directions, 2009. 368 pp. Paper: $15.95. Robert Walser's early (1907) novel The Tanners concerns the autodidactic rebel Simon...