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The Poems by Robert Walser
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.71The 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... -
The Walk by Robert Walser
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in... -
Comedies by Robert Walser
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.79Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little known... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons,... -
Microscripts Robert Walser 9780811220330
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.00Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only... -
Berlin Stories by Robert Walser
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174548Author Robert WalserFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
Comedies by Robert Walser 9781803090498
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.20This book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette. Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer... -
The Assistant by Robert Walser 9780811215909
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.41Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he... -
Looking at Pictures Robert Walser 9780811224246
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays... -
A Schoolboy's Diary Robert Walser 9781590176726
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176726Author Robert WalserFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
Thirty Poems Robert Walser 9780811220019
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55In a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walser's work, Thirty Poems collects famed translator Christopher Middleton's favorite poems from the more... -
Keeping Time by Robert Walser 9780195091731
Booksplease Price: £32.75Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time lets you experience, first hand, the controversies and critical issues that have... -
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The Institut Benjamenta: a school of humility for the unambitious. The young Jakob von Gunten arrives at this most curious of educational establishments with the goal of becoming 'something very... -
Selected Stories by Robert Walser 9780374533625
Booksplease Price: £13.04In her preface to Robert Walser's "Selected Stories", Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively... -
Little Snow Landscape Robert Walser 9781681375229
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375229Author Robert WalserFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser 9780940322219
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322219Author Robert WalserFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint The New York Review of Books,... -
Robert Walser: A Companion by Samuel Frederick 9780810137127
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Interest 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... -
Fairy Tales: Dramolettes Robert Walser 9780811223980
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.40Fairy Tales gathers the unconventional verse dramolettes of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Narrated in Walser's inimitable, playful language, these theatrical pieces overturn traditional notions of... -
Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 by Robert Walser 9780803298330
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place," Robert Walser (1878-1956) is only now finding an audience among... -
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"Masquerade" and Other Stories by Robert Walser 9780801839771
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £26.00Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his "true profession." From 1899... -
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser by Susan Bernofsky 9780300268041
Booksplease Price: £25.74The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator Finalist for the 2021 NBCC Award for Biography "[An]... -
Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History by Robert Walser 9780199765775
Booksplease Price: £119.45Featuring more than seventy thought-provoking selections drawn from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History,... -
Robert Walser: Unmoored: Schizophrenia, Cognition, and the Text by Charles Vannette 9781789977936
RRP: £59.40Booksplease Price: £53.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789977936Author Charles VannetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Peter Lang International... -
Landscape's Revenge: The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho by Caio Yurgel 9783110617573
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £81.68Landscape, as it appears and is described throughout the works of Bernardo Carvalho and Robert Walser, provides an excellent-yet virtually unexplored-pathway to the authors' literary projects. The... -
Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter by Samuel Frederick
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12In Narratives Unsettled, Samuel Frederick proposes a new conception of narrativity that can accommodate unwieldy, recalcitrant forms of digression. By way of close readings of three distinct... -
Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter by Samuel Frederick 9780810128170
Booksplease Price: £72.70Argues by way of close readings of three very different German-language writers that only if we conceive of narrativity unburdened by plot can we properly account for radical forms of digression.Book... -
Thomas Hirschhorn: Robert WalserSculpture by Thomas Hirschhorn
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £47.64For three months Biel, Switzerland, hosted a special kind of sculpture. It was special not simply because it was by one of Switzerland's most famous contemporary artists-Thomas Hirschhorn-and... -
Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, and Robert Walser: Selected Short Writings by Dirck Linck 9780826418012
Booksplease Price: £44.76The literature of the Wiener Moderne exhibits biting social satire and other related aspects, first emanating from Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a prolific writer, difficult to classify, who reminds people... -
Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction by Rochelle Tobias
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.50Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming reality. Rochelle Tobias argues that the... -
The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti 9780811237994
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.15The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death... -
The Confusions of Young Torless by J. M. Coetzee 9780142180006
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.02At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their... -
Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary by Steven Baur
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89No music scholar has made as profound an impact on contemporary thought as Susan McClary, a central figure in what has been termed the 'new musicology'. In this volume seventeen distinguished... -
Walks with Walser by Carl Seelig 9780811221399
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the... -
The Rock History Reader Theo Cateforis 9781138227712
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.59This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. This third edition includes... -
Man + Dog: Drawings by Nick Wadley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Painter and art historian Nick Wadley-who has curated exhibitions on Kurt Schwitters, Franciszka Themerson, Gaberbocchus Press, and Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi"-here turns his attentive and whimsical eye... -
The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti 9781804270899
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that ‘by definition, he could never live to complete’, as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against Death is the... -
Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900 - 2015: Between Acceleration and Slowness by Anne Fuchs 9781137411860
Booksplease Price: £46.28Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900 - 2015 is an interdisciplinary volume that explores the social, psychological, and historical impact of acceleration through the medium of culture. New... -
Man + Table Nicholas Wadley 9781564787637
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Following his anthologies Man + Dog (2009) and Man + Doctor (2012), Nick Wadley has, with our encouragement, compiled this collection of drawings around the theme of Man + Table. Tracing origins in... -
An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg by Alain-Paul Mallard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who... -
The Old Child And The Book Of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck 9781846276767
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From the winner of the International Booker Prize 'Bracing, unflinching and alive' Nicole Krauss 'Intense and beautifully written' Time Out A child is found standing on the street, with an...