Clairvoyant of the small: the life of Robert Walser

The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of...

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Main Author: Bernofsky, Susan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2021]
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Summary:The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest-social outcasts and artists as well as the impoverished, marginalized, and forgotten-prompted W. G. Sebald to dub him "a clairvoyant of the small." His revolutionary use of short prose forms had an enormous influence on Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Robert Musil, and many others.--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 378 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780300258264

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