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Robert Walser : A Companion - Samuel Frederick

Robert Walser

A Companion

By: Samuel Frederick (Editor), Valerie Heffernan (Editor)

Paperback | 30 June 2018

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Interest in the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) has widened thanks to high praise from intellectuals such as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and J. M. Coetzee, and an increasing number of Walser’s books are now available in English translation. Robert Walser: A Companion offers the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to Walser’s work available in English to date.

Examining Walser’s literary works, milieu, and idiosyncratic writing process, the twelve essays in Robert Walser: A Companion address aspects of his biography; discuss the various genres in which he wrote—the novel, short prose, drama, lyric poetry, and letters—and analyze his best-known novels and short stories alongside lesser-known but no less fascinating poems, dramas, and prose pieces.

A welcome addition to 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 the Walser literature for the first time.

Industry Reviews

"A book like this is not only due but overdue. It is a valuable companion to many of Walser's best-known works, and offers insightful accounts of some lesser known ones that are genuinely helpful. Indeed, part of the value of the book lies in the variety of its contributions, a variety that mirrors the great diversity of Walser's writings." --Jan Plug, author of They Have All Been Healed: Reading Robert Walser



"An engaging introduction for newcomers to Walser that also breaks new ground in Walser scholarship, this volume is a worthy addition to a growing body." --Domenic DeSocio, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

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