The Walk |
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| Author:
| Walser, Robert |
| Translator:
| Middleton, Christopher |
| Introduction by:
| Sontag, Susan |
| Series title: | Extraordinary Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-85242-276-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2007 |
| Publisher: | Serpent's Tail Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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'For me the sketches I produce now and then are shortish or longish chapters of a novel. The novel I am constanly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.? One of the great writers of the twentieth century - and an important influence on Kafka - comes to light in this selection of the best of his short fictions. Through his protagonists - young men of modest means, famous artists, society women, animals endowed...
More Description'For me the sketches I produce now and then are shortish or longish chapters of a novel. The novel I am constanly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.? One of the great writers of the twentieth century - and an important influence on Kafka - comes to light in this selection of the best of his short fictions. Through his protagonists - young men of modest means, famous artists, society women, animals endowed with the gift of speech - Robert Walser captures the dislocated unease of life in early twentieth-century Europe.