A Schoolboy's Diary: And Other Stories - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Robert Walser, Damion Searls, Ben LernerSeries:New York Review Books ClassicsPublish date:2013-09-03Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590176726ISBN-10:1590176723UPC:9781590176726Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous, Literary, Short Stories (single author)Size:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCSP6HXYG0
A Schoolboy's Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser's strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser's first book, "Fritz Kocher's Essays," the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser's service in World War I. Throughout, Walser's careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590176726ISBN-10:1590176723UPC:9781590176726Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous, Literary, Short Stories (single author)Size:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCSP6HXYG0
Robert Walser (1878-1956) was born into a German speaking family in Biel, Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering, precarious existence while writing his poems, novels, and vast numbers of the "prose pieces" that became his hallmark. In 1933 he was confined to a sanatorium, which marked the end of his writing career. Among Walser's works available in English are Berlin Stories and Jakob von Gunten (both available as NYRB classics), Thirty Poems, The Walk, The Tanners, Microscripts, The Assistant, The Robber, Masquerade and Other Stories, and Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932. Damion Searls is a translator from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch and a writer in English. His own books include What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, The Inkblots, and The Philosophy of Translation. He received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2019 for Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries. Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry and three novels, mostly recently The Topeka School, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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