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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) (1933 words)

	ipedia.com: Robert Walser Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert Walser is a musicologist associated with the " new musicology ".
		Robert Walser is a Swiss modernist writer (1878-1956).
		Robert Walser is a musicologist associated with the "new musicology".
	www.ipedia.com /robert_walser.html (136 words)

	The Stranger \| Seattle \| Books \| Feature \| Books Are Good for Nothing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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 (1236 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)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Jakob Von Gunten, New York Review Books Classics Ser. Series #10
		Description: The Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) is one of the quiet geniuses of 20th-century literature.
		Walser is an outsider artist of whose beautiful and capricious sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Rousseau.
		Description: The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/search.jsp?srchTerms=0940322218&mediaType=1&srchType=IS (446 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.
		The writer seems to have lost the slight air of suffering that had characterized his appearance in his middle years: here is an upright pensioner, gone voluntarily to his retirement.
	www.eurozine.com /article/2002-10-30-bachmann-en.html (2014 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)

	Guardian and Poet Pg2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The “guardian” in the title refers to publisher and part-time scribe Carl Seelig, while the “poet” is the rediscovered Robert Walser, whom many critics rank in the same class with (if not exceeding) Hermann Hesse.
		It not only tells the uniformed viewer a great deal about a talented writer, but raises questions about the personality of a man believed to be schizophrenic for the last 23 years of his life in a mental hospital.
		Walser (born in Biel on 15 April 1878) died in 1956 in Herisau while on an after-dinner walk, this time on a cold, wintry, snowy day.
	www.percyadlon.com /second_pages/guardian_and_poet_pg2.htm (476 words)

	FRANK: Swiss Notables
		We were surprised by a number of these individuals whom we hadn´t thought of as Swiss, and thought Frank readers might appreciate having a glance at the short list we´ve culled from the lexicon.
		Writers whose work we´ve included in Frank have not been added to this list.
		One of Switzerland´s most acclaimed writers and architects, Frisch was born and died in Zurich.
	www.readfrank.com /browse/foreign_dossier/34.php (314 words)

	Walser Apply In Person Or Contact Janene Walser At. 310-891-3325 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		CONTEXT: John Taylor Reading Robert Walser It is regrettable that the Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) remains so scarcely known in the United the Prague author was "a special case of.
		ISBN 0940322986 The eccentric life of Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) is perhaps easier to describe than his equally a mere millimeter in height, Walser eked out a living as a.
		The possibility that she may be a hoax is what draws her audiences, and Walser, and the reader mother, played a trick on Walser that night with the aid of.
	www.99hosted.com /names17386.html (470 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 (686 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)

	riverfronttimes.com \| News \| Swiss Mystery
		Gass -- the director of Wash. U.'s International Writers Center and a well-known author -- is the sort of figure who single-mindedly inspires graduate students to study on the Hilltop campus.
		But as a novel, The Robber is a more stunning Walser performance, and Bernofsky delivers it into English with grace, verve and hilarity (see the accompanying review).
		"Walser's famous in German for writing what one unliterary neighbor of mine in Switzerland once called 'tapeworm sentences' -- he pushes German syntax to its limits, and it's often very tricky to follow the weavings of his sentences in English," Bernofsky explains.
	www.riverfronttimes.com /issues/2000-05-17/books_1.html (691 words)

	Irving Berlin -- Songs from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914
		One cigarette replaced another as he pegged away; a pitcher of beer, stationed at one end of the keyboard, was replenished frequently; and there he sat, trying patiently to suggest, to two minds that were completely worn out by long rehearsals and over-work, a lyric that would fit his melody.
		As a result of this focus on radical individuality, a composer's music was expected to differ stylistically from the music of all earlier composers and also from that of other contemporaneous writers, and it was judged in large part by the extent to which it moved forward, breaking new stylistic ground.
		In order to achieve this instant familiarity, as it might be called, writers of popular songs not only conformed stylistically to the music best known to their audiences but often quoted and parodied familiar melodic material, as well.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/h/hamm-berlin.html (5695 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Walser's intention in writing Jakob Von Gunken was to portray a clever sociopath.
		I found Robert Walser (Jakob, to whatever extent) to be a clever, delightful iconoclast.
		I think it was Guy Davenport who referred to Walser as "Kafka inside out"--an apt characterization that I take to mean he summons up a certain spiritual fortitude that I find otherwise conspicuously missing in the house of literary modernism.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/00/bookclub/bookclub1128.htm (1460 words)

	Books and Writing August 1998 Program Summaries
		And Canadian writer Wayson Choy takes us to the world of childhood in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 30's with his novel The Jade Peony (Penguin), winner of Canada's Trillium Award.
		Robert Dessaix talks about his memoir, A Mother's Disgrace (Angus & Robertson), reads from and discusses his novel Night Letters (Picador), the essay included in Secrets (Pan MacMillan), the "spiritual" in his life and he reads an excerpt from his forthcoming new book (And so forth) to be published by Pan MacMillan.
		A taste of the strange world of Swiss writer Robert Walser, who wrote between 1907 and 1929 and whose work is having a new lease of life through theatre.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/bw9808.htm (731 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Perhaps she never should have formed a relationship with this penniless good-for-nothing.” Thus begins Robert Walser’s novel “The Robber,” written in such a microscopically small script that it was long considered unreadable.
		It is a novel about a man who, according to Walser, resembles a leaf “that a boy knocks down from a branch with a rod because it strikes him as isolated.”
		Robert Walser, born in Biel, Switzerland in 1878, lived in Zurich and Berlin, where he was active as a writer and pamphleteer.
	www.sikorski.de /articles/article842.html (243 words)

	The Stranger \| Seattle \| Books \| Bio: Readings \| Books: Review
		The biographical note that introduces this collection of short stories drops on its reader like a dark harbinger of literary doom: Author Robert Walser was a successful and prolific writer up until he voluntarily committed himself to a mental institution in midlife, and refused to write again.
		The looseness of form in the short story allows Walser to do what he does best: rush toward an object and scrupulously inspect it until he is done with it (sometimes 10 lines, sometimes 10 pages).
		The editors of the collection should have expanded beyond the introductions by Sontag and translator Christopher Middleton, which, though offering insight into some aspects of Walser's lifelong "demonic anguish," are so clearly enthusiastic about his writing that they never face the question of why it ultimately was not enough for him to do just that--write.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=10348 (347 words)

	NYRB: Robert Walser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert Walser (1878-1956) left school at fourteen and led a wandering, precarious existence while producing poems, essays, stories, and novels.
		An ideal introduction to this fascinating writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place."
		Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, the Swiss writer Robert Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/7428 (112 words)

	Amazon.com: The Robber: Books: Robert Walser,Susan Bernofsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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 /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0803298099?v=glance (1429 words)

	NYRB Classics: Selected Stories of Robert Walser
		In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
		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.
	www.nybooks.com /shop/product?product_id=438 (552 words)

	Speaking to the Rose - University of Nebraska Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		The 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 English-speaking readers commensurate with his merits—if not with his self-image.
		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.
	www.nebraskapress.unl.edu /bookinfo/4834.html (425 words)

	Zeitgeist Films \| The Comb (From the Museums of Sleep)
		The Comb opens in the shadowy bedroom of a sleeping beauty and seems to enter her mind and burrow into her dreams.
		Based on a fragment of text by the Austrian writer Robert Walser, THE COMB is an exploration of the subconscious visualized as a labyrinthine playhouse haunted by a doll-like explorer.
		A mesmerizing and resonant blend of live action and animation, THE COMB is set to a sensuous score of violins, guitars and attic room cries and whispers, and bathed in a gorgeous golden glow.
	www.zeitgeistfilms.com /film.php?directoryname=comb (86 words)

	SFBG A and E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Things small and obscure (human and otherwise) are the brothers' forte, and with them they have created a visually stunning, elegantly articulated, often difficult work of art.
		Based on the novel Jakob von Gunten by Swiss writer Robert Walser (who was eventually institutionalized, at his own behest, for schizophrenia), Institute Benjamenta traces the entropic unraveling of a mysterious boarding school for servants and the simultaneous psychic disintegration of Fraulein and Herr Benjamenta (Alice Krige and Gottfried John), the siblings who run it.
		The catalyst for all this upheaval is an innocuous new student, Jakob von Gunten (played to blank perfection by Mark Rylance), who becomes a tabula rasa for the Benjamentas' dark obsessions, particularly their mutual longing for metaphysical obliteration in some "immense silence [with] neither beginning nor end...
	www.sfbg.com /AandE/30/35/052996filmb.html (617 words)

	Amazon.com: "Masquerade" and Other Stories: Books: Robert Walser,Susan Bernofsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As William Gass points out in the forward, Walser was a post-modernist dating back to the first quarter of the century.
		Walser's prose is a stroll at the borders of the society, viewing, admiring, mocking it, and finally refusing to be a part of it.
		Walser is a magician of interiors that spiral into an incomprehensible, slightly threatening, but tenderly mysterious world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801839777?v=glance (901 words)

	Last Name
		Robert Walser (1878-1956), the Swiss-German master of high modernist prose, was once so well known that the novelist Robert Musil, reviewing Franz Kafka's first book of stories, described Kafka as "a special case of the Walser type." Walser's last novel,
		My Very Last Possession depicts the trials of the Korean War and the subsequent three decades of upheaval during which the country was transformed from a military dictatorship and an agriculturally based society to an urban industrialized, albeit troubled, democracy.
		The Temple of Iconoclasts is a celebration of ethnic difference that acknowledges the brutal hierarchies in which various ethnicities have been positioned.
	www.utdallas.edu /~schulte/annotations/W.htm (1137 words)

	Stories to Go: "The Monkey" by Robert Walser
		Like many other great writers, Robert Walser ended his life in an insane asylum, having given up on writing but not on long walks through the countryside.
		Another very interesting writer is Patricia Powell, a native of Jamaica who now makes her home in the United States.
		She has won so many awards and received so many accolades it would be impossible to list them all here, but get to your local bookstore posthaste and start scanning the stacks--you will find her.
	storiestogo.blogspot.com /2005/07/monkey-by-robert-walser.html (310 words)

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