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The Walk by Robert Walser
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54Ranging 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... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97The 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,... -
The Walk by Robert Walser 9780811219921
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €10.36A pseudo-biographical "stroll" through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser's short prose. Walking features heavily in his... -
Comedies by Robert Walser 9781803090498
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.11This 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... -
Microscripts Robert Walser 9780811220330
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.02Robert 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174548Author Robert WalserFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Selected Stories by Robert Walser 9780374533625
Booksplease Price: €15.49In 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... -
A Schoolboy's Diary Robert Walser 9781590176726
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176726Author Robert WalserFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Thirty Poems Robert Walser 9780811220019
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.50In 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... -
Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser 9780940322219
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322219Author Robert WalserFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Fairy Tales: Dramolettes Robert Walser 9780811223980
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92Fairy 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... -
Little Snow Landscape Robert Walser 9781681375229
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375229Author Robert WalserFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
La Habitacion del Poeta by Professor Robert Walser 9788478448630
Booksplease Price: €19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788478448630Author Professor Robert WalserFormat HardbackImprint -
Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History by Robert Walser 9780199765775
Booksplease Price: €141.82Featuring more than seventy thought-provoking selections drawn from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History,... -
Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 by Robert Walser 9780803298330
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.22The 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... -
Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, and Robert Walser: Selected Short Writings by Dirck Linck 9780826418012
Booksplease Price: €52.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti 9780811237994
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.32The 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... -
Walks with Walser by Carl Seelig 9780811221399
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.64After 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 Book Against Death by Elias Canetti 9781804270899
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51In 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... -
Man + Table Nicholas Wadley 9781564787637
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.95Following 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... -
The Old Child And The Book Of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck 9781846276767
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70From 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... -
Goldfish memory by Monique Schwitters 9781910409633
Booksplease Price: €17.22What does it mean to have a connection with someone? Everyday you see tens and hundreds of faces and overhear countless conversations. Everyday you pass people by - on the street. In the office. In... -
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780393976120
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.04"Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant writings by Dostoevsky, among them "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," the author's account of a formative trip to the West. New to the Second Edition... -
The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky by Franz Kafka 9780393347098
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.56Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is... -
ULTRAMARINE by MARIETTE NAVARRO 9781739751579
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €9.83A poetic and mesmerizing novel, Ultramarine pushes us to the very edges of the narrative genre. Narrated in the first person by a female captain, the only woman amongst the crew of a transatlantic... -
The Naked Eye Yoko Tawada 9781803511719
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.61A young Vietnamese woman is invited to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to speak at an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. On her arrival, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian... -
Before I Forget Anne Pauly 9781916806160
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02When Anne's father dies, she is left grieving a contradiction. Jean-Pierre was a man of many faces: the self-taught philosopher born into poverty; the Buddhist who marked his favourite haikus with... -
Where Europe Begins: Stories by Yoko Tawada
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.32Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as "a spectacular journey through a world of... -
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel Yoko Tawada 9780811234870
Booksplease Price: €15.10Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient," is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open... -
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'Vital... [Erpenbeck] is asking a compelling and timely question' Sally Rooney, Irish Times Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas. Recently... -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first... -
Manon's World: A Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel James Reidel 9780857427496
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €24.10At once a narrative biography and a medical history, Manon's World tells the story of a haunted young woman caught in the middle of a love triangle in interwar Germany. Manon Gropius (1916-1935) was... -
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck 9780811218351
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.39A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to... -
Famous Children and Famished Adults: Stories by Evelyn Hampton 9781573660693
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.97Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.Stories that remap the world to reveal hidden places we have always suspected of existing and scenarios that show us glimpses of ourselves. ... -
The Caretaker by Doon Arbus
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.54Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector-the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation-the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a... -
Spontaneous Acts Yoko Tawada 9780349704234
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €11.42The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though... -
Goth: Undead Subculture by Michael Bibby 9780822339083
RRP: €152.32Booksplease Price: €122.21Since it first emerged from Britain's punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. Goth: Undead... -
A Sabbatical in Leipzig by Adrian Duncan 9781843517764
Booksplease Price: €12.88Adrian Duncan's novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2021 Michael, a retired engineer, has lived away from Ireland for most of his life and now... -
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck 9780811225946
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.23Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The Millions). The novel tells the... -
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair...