A Schoolboy's Diary And Other Stories
by Robert Walser & Damion Searls (translator) & Ben Lerner (introduction by)
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Pages:
208
Published:
Oct 2013
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group UK
Imprint
Frances Lincoln
ISBN:
9781590176726
A Schoolboy's Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser's strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser's first book, "Fritz Kocher's Essays," the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser's service in World War I. Throughout, Walser's careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.
$44.00
