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A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art

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"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

Looking at Pictures

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    A Hardback by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky, Lydia Davis

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      Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Published 20 November 2015
      ISBN-13 9780811224246
      978-0811224246
      ISBN-10 0811224244
      Also in:
      Art & Photography The arts: general topics Biography Essays Books by Robert Walser

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A 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

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