Robert Walser: A Companion

ISBN: 0810137127

Author: Frederick, Samuel

Condition: New

The Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) is now recognized as one of the most important European authors of the modernist period, having garnered high praise from such prominent voices as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and J. M. Coetzee. Robert Walser: A Companion is the first comprehensive guide to Walser's work in English. The twelve essays in this collection examine Walser's literary output,historical milieu, and idiosyncratic writing process, addressing aspects of his biography; discussing the various genres in which he wrote (the novel, short prose, drama, lyric poetry, and letters); and analyzing his best-known novels and short stories alongside lesser-known but no less fascinating poems, plays,and prose pieces.An essential addition to the scholarship about this eccentric, prolific, and influential writer's work, Robert Walser: A Companion will be of interest both to established scholars and to those coming to Walser for the first time.Contents:Introduction. Robert Walser: Modernist at the MarginsSamuel Frederick and Valerie HeffernanThe Young Poet (1896-1899)Susan BernofskyTo Pieces: Robert Walser's Correspondence with Frieda MermetElke SiegelRobert Walser as Lyric PoetSamuel FrederickAntechambers of Life: School and Living-On in Fritz Kocher's EssaysAnette SchwarzRobert Walser's Jewish BerlinDaniel MedinOut of a Job: Giving Notice in The Tanners and The AssistantPaul BuchholzRobert Walser's Jakob von Gunten: A "Zero" Point of German LiteraturePeter UtzRobert Walser's Sceneries: "Kleist in Thun" and "The Walk"Bernhard F. MalkmusImmersion, Interpolation, Philology: Losing Oneself in Robert WalserJrg KreienbrockParodies of Power: Robert Walser's Dramatic ScenesValerie HeffernanRobert Walser and Violence: Strange Excursions into the MicroscriptsKai EversRobert Walser's The Robber: An Exercise in CampAnne Fuchs