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	Robert Walser (writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Walser (April 15, 1878 near Biel/Bienne, Switzerland – December 25, 1956 near Herisau, Switzerland), was a German-speaking Swiss writer.
		From 1892 to 1895, Walser served an apprenticeship at the Bernische Kantonalbank in Biel.
		Walser absorbed influences from serious literature as well as from formula fiction and retold for example the plot of a pulp novel in a way that the original (the title of which he never revealed) was unrecognizable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Walser_(writer) (1968 words)

	Books Are Good for Nothing \| Books \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		Robert, the second youngest, was born in 1878 and spent his last 27 years in mental institutions.
		Walser embraces the non sequitur, the irrelevant, the goofy.
		Walser wrote The Robber in 1925, but as translator Susan Bernofsky notes in her smart introduction, he didn't expect it to be published.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=3708 (1231 words)

	Eurozine - Articles
		Seelig wanted to make of friend Walser his Walser, his own figure, and was forever scribbling furtive notes on their walks and at meals in country inns in Toggenburg: notes that Walser, meanwhile, pretended not to see, while Seelig was busy plucking and sorting him, readying him for the killing box of literary legend.
		And Walser, of course, now indeed become a figure in one of his own stories, was busy all the while, feeding Seelig little anecdotes and bits of clever stuff to draw his own self-portrait with the other's pen: the other, Seelig, all unwitting.
		Walser came with dust on his shoes into the salon of Swiss literature, a salon still marked by the provincial arrogance of the Swiss National Exhibition.
	www.eurozine.com /article/2002-10-30-bachmann-en.html (2029 words)

	art orbit walser
		When Robert decided to move to Berlin in the middle of the first decade of this century, his brother, who already lived there, introduced him to Bruno Cassirer, who would later be the publisher of Robert's first books.
		Walser's walking eye, or walking vision, created a presence for this subjects which is perceived as an in-between space.
		According to Werner Morlang, "this external particularity also corresponds to the formal components of Walser's prose in his last works, to his unrestrained accumulation of ideas and of associations which let a concept be asserted more by the casual end of a sheet than by the strictness of a formal rule".
	www.artnode.se /artorbit/issue1/f_walser/f_walser.html (1336 words)

	The New York Review of Books: The Genius of Robert Walser
		Robert Walser was born in 1878 in the canton of Bern, the seventh of eight children.
		Walser's texts are driven neither by logic nor by narrative but by moods, fancies, and associations: in temperament he is less a thinker or storyteller than an essayist.
		Today Walser is judged largely on the basis of his novels, even though these form only a fifth of his output, and even though the novel proper was not his forte (the four novels he left behind really belong to the tradition of the novella).
	www.nybooks.com /nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20001102013R (4110 words)

	Mr. Walser HEHS Automotive
		Walser graduated from Northern Illinois University this summer with masters degree in educational administration.
		Walser is part of Einstein Elementary PTA and active in Camanelli YMCA.
		Walser coached Varsity Wrestling, served as the Sophomore and Varsity football statistician, and sponsored of VICA.
	www.hehs.d211.org /people/walserr (315 words)

	Dreamers Rise: An Open Notebook
		Walser's own explanation, such as it is, was recorded by a friend, Carl Seelig, who occasionally visited him at Herisau.
		All of this tends to point to a connection between Walser's eventual silence and an aesthetic that was grounded in abnegation from the start.
		At some point, before he began to slip into the abyss, Walser may have known that, may have understood that though there are worse sins than a passive life there is no hope for an artist who ceases to be willing to define the world as he sees it.
	mysite.verizon.net /ckearin/dreamersrise88.html (1225 words)

	The Antigonish Review: issue 116
		Middleton asserts that Walser was an innocent and in his work, "...wholly dependent on a spontaneity that eludes us..." He maintains that nothing in Walser's life was ever resolved, and that the 'luminoid' personality can be quite dangerous to the subject.
		Certainly Walser's writings, his style and subject matter, mark him as an individualist, much like the writers, Alfred Jarry and Appolinaire, the painter Henri Rousseau or the composer Erik Satie, all of whom defy categorisation, and all of whom were neglected in their day.
		Somehow Walser, perhaps because of his irony or lyricism, perhaps because some editors took his work to be impossible, nonsensical, managed to slip through the cracks and onto the pages.
	www.antigonishreview.com /bi-116/116-morose.html (4877 words)

	Robert Christgau: Serious Music: Robert Walser's "Running With the Devil"
		Walser shares this resentment, and indulges in the defensive overstatement it invariably sparks (you'd never guess that many of the young critics who grew up hearing metal remain selectively sympathetic).
		Walser scores some points about glam androgyny, but cops out when he argues that metal sexism is "shaped by patriarchy" like everything else in this society--in fact, the intensity of its phallic narcissism has few parallels outside X-rated movies, toilet art, and (oh yes) rap.
		Though his discussion of horror and madness is recommended to anyone who gives the slightest credence to the canard that metal bands drive their fans to murder or suicide, most antimetal crusaders are so silly that too often he's reduced to shooting down gnats with ack-ack guns.
	www.robertchristgau.com /xg/bkrev/walser-cp.php (862 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Christopher Middleton: Translating a German Genius
		As a posthumous author, Walser is a success such as he never was in the pink living flesh, poor sod.
		Walser was bringing into the language something almost untouched by German literary culture.
		Walser, of course, is the dew and daffodils.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-05-31/books_feature.html (715 words)

	BassFan.com
		A consistent and steady strategy isn't flashy, but that's what North Carolina's Robert Walser used to win the BFL All-American at the Connecticut River.
		Walser finished 2-03 ahead of Florida's Chad Dorland, who was 2nd with a total weight of 32-07.
		Walser stuck with a consistent strategy throughout the tournament, it was so consistent, he weighed identical sacks of 11-11 the final 2 days.
	www.bassfan.com /trails_article.asp?ID=766 (998 words)

	Robert Walser - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Walser wuchs in Biel, das an der deutsch-französischen Sprachgrenze liegt, zweisprachig auf.
		In Biel schrieb Robert Walser eine Vielzahl von kleinen Prosastücken, die in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften in Deutschland und der Schweiz erschienen und in Auswahl in den Bänden Kleine Dichtungen (1915), Prosastücke (1917), Kleine Prosa (1917), Poetenleben (1918) und Seeland (1919) erschienen.
		Robert Walser wurde erst ab den 1970er Jahren in breiterem Umfang wiederentdeckt, obwohl Christian Morgenstern, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin oder Hermann Hesse zu seinen großen Bewunderern gehört hatten.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Robert_Walser (2114 words)

	CONTEXT: John Taylor Reading Robert Walser
		It is regrettable that the Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) remains so scarcely known in the United States at a time when his arresting novels and short prose pieces are considered, not only in German-language countries but throughout continental Europe, to constitute a major oeuvre.
		Although Walser can concentrate on a given anecdote per se (thereby revealing his predilection for the singular event and the isolated instant, as opposed to a world-view presupposing temporal continuity), the logic of coherent storytelling--in which several anecdotes must be woven together plausibly--can become comically chaotic.
		Walser's silence is particularly troubling because, from the beginning of his career through the mid-1920s, and despite increasing periods of abject poverty, self-reclusion and nomadism, his productivity was impressive, by any writer's standards.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no7/taylor.html (1671 words)

	Robert Walser Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Robert Walser, a German-Swiss prose writer and novelist, enjoyed high repute among a select group of authors and critics in Berlin early in his career, only to become nearly forgotten by the time he committed himself to the Waldau mental clinic in Bern in January 1929.
		Walser's writing is characterized by its linguistic sophistication and animation.
		His work exhibits several sets of tensions or contrasts: between a classic modernist devotion to art and a ceaseless questioning of the moral legitimacy and practical utility of art; between a spirited exuberance in style and texture and recurrent reflective melancholy; betwee.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-walser-dlb (189 words)

	Amazon.fr : Masquerade and Other Stories: Livres en anglais: Robert Walser,Susan Bernofsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Today Robert Walser is widely regarded as one of the most important and original literary voices of the twentieth century.
		Written between 1899 and 1933, these 64 sketches, scenes, stories, and wanderings through landscapes and dreamscapes are characterized by startling, skewed comparisons, warpings of syntax, vagaries of perspective, and a delight in contradiction.
		Quirky, playful, and sometimes bizarre, Walser's texts were unconventional by the standards of the early twentieth century.
	www.amazon.fr /Masquerade-Other-Stories-Robert-Walser/dp/0801839777 (375 words)

	Amazon.com: The Robber: Books: Robert Walser,Susan Bernofsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is Robert 'Robber' Walser's last novel written before his grand finale of silence upon admittance unto the mad houses of final quietude.
		Inside Walser's heartrending Romantic prose his ever-active eternal spirit takes on alarming fleshly precedence though still omnipotent enough to take over the world dressed in cool sunglasses shading that evil eye; in luminous gowns made of 'white magical' tissue paper, all the better equipped to wipe away tears at the same time as reading.
		The mystery is deep as a sea full of Leviathans; and Walser navigates straight through the groping tentacles of mythological monsters to purge the heart of all its fictions.
	www.amazon.com /Robber-Robert-Walser/dp/0803298099 (1478 words)

	La inquebrantable ingenuidad - ELPAIS.es - edición impresa - Suplementos - Babelia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Robert Walser nació en Biel (Suiza) el 15 de abril de 1878 y murió, caído sobre la nieve, el día de Navidad de 1956.
		Walser despreciaba los ideales de prosperidad, aborrecía el éxito, era incapaz de someterse a ningún tipo de rutina o atadura.
		Walser se mimetiza para no ser descubierto, no compite por ningún puesto social, se desentiende de la maquinaria que engarza al individuo con el poder.
	www.elpais.es /articulo/elpbabnar/20051119elpbabnar_4/Tes (985 words)

	Robert De Launay ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Robert Batty, Hoxter, on the Weser, plate 52 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut.
		Robert Batty, View from the Pastey, plate 19 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut.
		Robert Batty, Bridge near the Werra, at Munden, plate 9 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut.
	www.wwar.com /masters/l/launay-robert_de.html (736 words)

	Thomas Koerfer filmography - The Assistant, after a novel by Robert Walser
		Koerfer and Feldhausen have not seen in Robert Walser the alienated fantasist he is (wrongly) thought to be by so many readers and interpreters.
		Where they found Walser's Assistant lacking in clarity, they did not hesitate to use passages from the Tanner Siblings and the minor works; indeed, in some cases the resulting perspective is grander than Walser's own might have been.
		In the person of Joseph Marti, Robert Walser has given us a portrait of himself; for his part, Thomas Koerfer observes both of these figures, creator and created alike, from an amiable distance, attempting at one and the same time to comprehend them and to judge them.
	www.koerferfilm.com /e/gehuelfe.html (1961 words)

	Thomas Koerfer Filmographie - Der Gehülfe, nach einem Roman von Robert Walser (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Koerfer und Feldhausen haben in Robert Walser nicht den weltfremden Fantasten gesehen, als der er bei vielen Lesern und Interpreten zu Unrecht gilt.
		Robert Walser hat sich in der Figur des Joseph Marti selbst porträtiert.
		Da Koerfer Robert Walsers Roman ganz deutlich und ausdrücklich auf ein präzisesThema hin befragt, wird die Schönheit problematisch.
	www.koerferfilm.com.cob-web.org:8888 /d/gehuelfe.html (1836 words)

	Robert Walser (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Robert Walser est, de toute évidence, sur une pente filant vers l'aliénation mentale.
		Walser raconte d'abord avec un apparent détachement une soirée "aux Variétés" où de frêles jeunes filles fument des cigarettes, où les artistes surgissent pour autant de sketches qui semblent passionner le public, où "vint un soldat qui se moquait de lui-même", où "Il y eut une minute sérieuse, oui, ce fut une bonne impression".
		Robert Walser, Nouvelles du jour, traduit de l'allemand par Marion Graf, Ed.
	www.culturactif.ch.cob-web.org:8888 /ecrivains/walser.htm (1423 words)

	ROBERT WALSER: Post Road #7
		And yet the greatest pedestrian in literary history, Robert Walser, is back in print and ready to be rediscovered again.
		It is this lightness and love of the world that brings me back to Walser's writing, once or twice a year, just for the pleasure of his company.
		I don't know what it was like to be Walser when he was not at work, but when he was writing he was swimming, not drowning.
	www.postroadmag.com /7/recommends/RobertWasler.phtml (869 words)

	Robert Walser - Frank Sauce-A Courtship of Memories Like Dreams
		"If you read only one writer or one book in all of Earthly existence, let it be by Robert Walser, a humble man with an inborn pride of thieves; who takes from his own rich Heart and gives Poetic alms to those poorer in spirit.
		Last night I picked up the newest translations of Robert Walser by Christopher Middleton,"Speaking to the Rose," at Powell's along with a hard to find copy of Rachel Blau DuPlessis's "Tabula Rosa." It's funny, really.
		At the time of his living, Walser was often considered a writer's writer, a hack, a fool or worse, but I think he was/is a writer's poet or a poet's writer and one of THE writers/poets creating during the 20th Century.
	earwater.blogspot.com /2006/04/robert-walser.html (306 words)

	The Robber - University of Nebraska Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Susan Bernofsky rises splendidly to the challenge of late Walser, particularly his play with the compound formations to which German is so hospitable.
		It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby’s mouth as an ashtray.
		Walser’s novel spoofs the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.
	www.nebraskapress.unl.edu /bookinfo/3792.html (446 words)

	NYRB Classics: Selected Stories of Robert Walser
		Walser is many things: a Paul Klee in words, maker of droll, whimsical, tender, and heartbreaking verbal artifacts; an inspiration to such very different writers as Kafka and W.G. Sebald; an amalgam, as Susan Sontag suggests in her preface to this volume, of Stevie Smith and Samuel Beckett.
		Walser is one of the most remarkable and fully realized stylists in modern literature.
		Terse and solid, Walser's prose is touched always with pain and laughter, peppered with irony and question marks, filled with loving lists of mundane objects, punctuated by startling fits of chaos...
	www.nybooks.com /shop/product?product_id=438 (552 words)

	TIME.com: Out of Limbo -- Sep. 20, 1982 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1914 Author Robert Walser wrote: "How horrible it must be to know that one is famous and to feel that one doesn't deserve it at all." This problem was one that Walser (1878-1956) never had to face.
		A half-century or so before Beckett, Walser was instructing an actor in how to end a play that would end all plays: "Then the painted-scenery houses collapse, like frightful drunkards, and bury you.
		Walser's apocalyptic vision stole a march on the many literary ones that were to follow in this century.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,950802,00.html (480 words)

	FishingWorld.com - News Center
		Boater Robert Walser, 46, of Lexington, N.C., caught a final-day limit of five bass that weighed 11 pounds, 11 ounces, bringing his three day total to 15 bass weighing 34 pounds, 10 ounces to grab his first All-American win and $140,000.
		Walser said he was fishing mainly banks with rocks, wood and other submerged structure.
		This was Walser’s 31st top-10 appearance in FLW Outdoors competition and his third straight All-American.
	www.fishingworld.com /News/Read.php?ArtID=000018172 (861 words)

	Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History, Robert Walser (editor)
		Walser has selected writings that capture the passionate reactions of people who have loved, hated, supported and argued about jazz.
		Filled with insightful writing, it aims to increase historical awareness, to provoke critical thinking, and to encourage lively classroom discussion as students relive the tangled and conflicted story of jazz.
		ROBERT WALSER is Associate Professor and Chair of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
	www.jazzscript.co.uk /books/antholwalser.htm (561 words)

	Speaking to the Rose - University of Nebraska Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Walser’s central themes of self-effacement, the primacy of the imagination, the liberating aim of creative play are richly displayed in the new volume.
		Walser’s lightness is lighter than light, buoyant up to and beyond belief, terrifyingly light.
		With a brisk preface and a chronology of Walser’s life and work, this collection of fifty translations of short prose pieces covers the middle to later years of the writer’s oeuvre.
	unp.unl.edu /bookinfo/4834.html (417 words)

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