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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 196 pages
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Inc., The
ISBN: 0940322986
Release Date: Jan 9, 2001
| |  | | | In Brief
"'My prose pieces,' wrote Walser, 'are, to my mind, nothing more nor less than parts of a long, plotless, realistic story . . . a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.' The author assumes a variety of masks in {these} 42 stories. . . . We meet a fellow who sniffs doors to confirm their presence, a man who doubts that joy exists, a pitiful giant who 'meant something to nobody,' an 'unspeakably odd' hedgehog kept company by a compassionate stork." (Newsweek)
| | | | From The Publisher
A writer who devoted loving attention to the smallest things and the most fugitive of feelings, Robert Walser influenced writers as diverse as Franz Kafka and W. G. Sebald. Selected Stories collects 42 of Walser's works, including "The Walk," which according to Time "belongs on any short list of great 20th-century stories." "If [Walser] had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place." — Hermann Hesse
| | | | Annotation
"Walser is one of the most remarkable and fully realized stylists in modern literature." The Nation
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