Assistant

Name: Assistant
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ISBN: 9780811215909

ISBN-10: 0811215903

ISBN-13: 9780811215909

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky

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This classic by Robert Walserwho was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebaldis now presented in English for the very first time. Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J. M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion, and an utterly unique radiance of vision, Walser is as Susan Sontag exclaimed "a truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer." The Assistantis his breathtaking 1908 novel, translated by award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Joseph, hired to become…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 7/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.10" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English