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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 c...
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Avery is a professor of German who has written several works on German literature, including Inquiry and Testament: A Study of the Novels and Short Prose of Robert Walser. In the following excerpt, he...
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Below, Evans relates how Walser uses antitheses, irony, and paradoxes in "The Battle of Sempach" to convey his interpretation of events and to encourage the reader to think how history i...
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Here, American writer and educator Lopate ponders the act of walking as a literary theme and as a source of inspiration and muse and indicates its importance to Walser as a basis for meditations, obse...
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In the following essay, Whalen examines the functions of ignorance, analogy, and motion in "Boat Trip, " concluding that Walser "relies often on the principle of analogy to reveal...
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In the review below, short story writer and critic DeFeo favorably assesses Walser's Selected Stories and analyzes Walser's use of characters. The critic also compares and contrasts Wals...
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In the following review of Selected Stories, Parry praises Christopher Middleton's translations from the original German into English, realizing that "these translations are not and cann...
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Here, in an essay originally published in German in 1983, German novelist and dramatist Martin Walser examines the tone and irony in many of Robert Walser's works. He also describes the author&...
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In the essay below, Avery attempts to explain why Walser wrote in microscript and discusses how the prose microscripts provide an understanding of Walser himself.
Early in 1913 Walser left Berlin, the...
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In the following essay, American critic Birkerts asserts that Walser's work should not be intertwined with that of Franz Kafka, describing Walser's tone as "buoyant, sportive, and...
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Gass is an American fiction writer and critic. Widely praised for the virtuosity of his prose style, he is among the most conspicuous modern proponents of the view that literature's sole meanin...
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Below, American scholar and translator Hafrey finds fault with Susan Bernofsky's translation of Walser's pieces collected in "Masquerade" and Other Stories.
In recent years...
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In the review below, American editor and author Mitgang studies Walser's writing style in "Masquerade" and Other Stories, commenting that "Walser writes like a man who has ...
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