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Selected Stories

FSG Classics

Author: Robert Walser; Foreword by Susan Sontag; Translated from the German by Christopher Middleton and others

Selected Stories

Selected Stories

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In 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...

Page Count
208
On Sale
10/30/2012

Book Details

In 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 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.

Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9781466834958

In The News

"[A] great novelist, one of the last century's finest."—The Independent

"An excellent introduction to a masterful writer."—Publishers Weekly

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Selected Stories

Selected Stories

$11.99