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The Walk
Walser, Robert; Bernofsky, Susan
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Description for The Walk
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 116 x 10. Weight in Grams: 90.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811219921
SKU
V9780811219921
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About Walser, Robert; Bernofsky, Susan
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Walk
"Incredibly interesting and beautiful."
John Ashbery "One of the most profound products of modern literature."
Walter Benjamin "The Walk is a good place to start reading Walser, and offers a kind of bridge between the novels and the microscripts.... The walk is a search for freedom, is an act of freedom itself, and the writing feels free to ... Read more
John Ashbery "One of the most profound products of modern literature."
Walter Benjamin "The Walk is a good place to start reading Walser, and offers a kind of bridge between the novels and the microscripts.... The walk is a search for freedom, is an act of freedom itself, and the writing feels free to ... Read more