Selected Stories

Name: Selected Stories
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ISBN: 9780811219921

ISBN-10: 0811219925

ISBN-13: 9780811219921

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky

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A pseudo-biographical stroll through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser’s short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantly considered. Without walking, I would be dead, Walser explains, and my profession, which I love passionately, would be destroyed. Because it is on walks that the lore of nature and the lore of the country are revealed, charming and graceful, to the sense and eyes of the observant walker. The Walk was the first piece of Walser’s work to appear in English, and the only one translated before his death. However, Walser heavily revised his most famous novella,…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 5/23/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 4.60" wide x 7.10" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.176
Language: English