Microscripts

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By Robert Walser

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Microscripts

$47⁹⁹

Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

Description

Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the microscripts were in time discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of antique German script: a whole story was deciphered on the back of a business card. These twenty-five short pieces address schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, elegant jaunts, the radio, swine, jealousy, and marriage proposals.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780811220330

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 November 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Contributors:

Translated by Susan Bernofsky
Illustrated by Maira Kalman
Translated by Susan Bernofsky
Translated by Susan Bernofsky

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 163.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 375g

Pages: 160

Collections

Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Robert Walser

About the Author

Robert Walser (1878-1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence working as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant while producing essays, stories, and novels. In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium-where he remained for the rest of his life. "I am not here to write," Walser said, "but to be mad." Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.