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ROBERT WALSER: MICROSCRIPTS
by Walser, Robert
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0811218805
- ISBN 13
- 9780811218801
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New York, NY: New Directions/Christine Burgin Gallery, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. A pristine, collectible book by Robert Walse, translated by Susan Bernofsky. "The incredible shrinking writer is a major 20th-century prose artist who, for all that the modern world seems to have passed him by, fulfills the modern criterion: He sounds like nobody else" (The New Yorker Magazine) . "One of the profoundest products of modern literature" (Walter Benjamin) . An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Walser collectors. Robert 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 after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the microscripts were in time discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of antique German script: a whole story was deciphered on the back of a business card. These twenty-five short pieces address schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, elegant jaunts, the radio, swine, jealousy, and marriage proposals.
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- Title
- ROBERT WALSER: MICROSCRIPTS
- Author
- Walser, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0811218805
- ISBN 13
- 9780811218801
- Publisher
- New Directions/Christine Burgin Gallery
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- COMTEMPARY FICTION ROBERT WALSER MICROSCRIPTS CHRISTINE BURGIN GALLERY
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