Selected Stories

Robert Walser

earliest edition we have, 2012 Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012 paperback 208 pages

Susan Sontag describes Walser as 'a good-humoured, sweet Beckett'. The more common comparison is to 'a comic Kafka'. Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing.

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Selected Stories paperback · 2012 · Farrar Straus Giroux · 208 pages · 9780374533625
Selected Stories edition · 2012 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781466834958

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