Books by Robert Walser
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review 1: Walser and I are never going to be best buddies, it seems to me. I really don't have much to say here except that I found this collection thoroughly underwhelming. In the introduction, Mr. Ben Lerner presents us with a few quotationts from such luminaries as W. G. Sebald and Susa...
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review 1: Leggere Walser con piacere significa avere un canale ancora aperto con quella dimensione dell'adolescenza nella quale si esita a salutare per sempre l'onnipotenza dell'infanzia. Si gioca malinconici, si studia guardando i monumenti di fotosintesi fuori dalla finestra, si tradisce...
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review 1: This really isn't a book of stories or even essays as much as it is a collection of 2-3 page vignettes giving you a glimpse of Robert Walser's pre-WWI Berlin life. I feel bad giving it such a low rating because it's one of those "it's not you, it's me" situations - in the same wa...
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review 1: Going to have to reread/re-rate this at some point, because I wasn't in the right state of mind for decoded vignettes. Near the end, I started to recognize the Walser that I love so much, but for the first 3/4 I just wasn't feeling it. At times I wonder whether Walser eve intende...
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review 1: The man could write but I finished feeling annoyed - wanted to shake the main character by the shoulders and tell him to DO something with his life. I saw many reviewers rave about is light, airy touch. It's pretty but I prefer more substance - tell me a story and/or give me char...
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review 1: WALSER, Robert: „Geschwister Tanner“, Frankfurt 1983Dieses Buch habe ich mehrfach zur Hand genommen und erst nach Jahren des Besitzes – ein Geschenk meines Freundes Franz Jantsch – zu lesen begonnen. Es führt in eine andere Zeit, in eine andere Welt. In eine Zeit, wo es noch Köch...