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Book SynopsisA special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art
Trade Review"This jeweled box of a book... float[s], wonderfully, somewhere in a land between short story and criticism." -- Randy Kennedy - The New York Times
""Walser achieved a remarkable tone, in which perfect assurance and perfect ambiguity combine."" -- Benjamin Kunkel - The New Yorker
""Everyone who reads Walser falls in love with him."" -- Nicholas Lazard - The Guardian
""A Paul Klee in prose, a good-humoured, sweet Beckett, Walser is a truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer."" -- Susan Sontag
""Bold and idiosyncratic."" -- Lydia Davis
""Singular—genius."" -- Ben Lerner
""Written between 1902 and 1930 and, with two exceptions, previously untranslated, the pieces gathered here elaborate a nervous, slapstick sort of hack journalism that set the stage for a fabulously experimental modernist writing situation whose fans included Kafka, Musil, and Benjamin."" -- John Kelsey - Artforum
