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The Poems (Hardcover)
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The Poems (Hardcover)
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The first complete publication of Robert Walser's poems translated
into English. Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter
Benjamin and acclaimed "unforgettable, heart-rending" by J. M.
Coetzee, Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) remains one of the
most influential authors of modern literature. Walser left school
at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence while
producing poems, stories, essays, and novels. In 1933, he abandoned
writing and entered a sanatorium, where he remained for the rest of
his life. "I am not here to write," Walser said, "but to be mad."
This first collection of Walser's poems in English translation
allows English-speaking readers to experience the author as he saw
himself at the beginning and the end of his literary career--as a
poet. The book also includes notes on dates of composition, draft
versions of the printed poems, and brief biographical information
on characters and locations that appear in the poems and may not be
known to readers. Few writers have ever experienced such a steady
rise in their reputation and public profile as Walser has seen in
recent years, and this collection of his poems will help readers
discover a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and
innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented,
distracted, bewildering era.
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