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Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

By Susan Bernofsky
Hardcover
$39.00
By Susan Bernofsky

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The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator

Finalist for the 2021 NBCC Award for Biography

“[An] authoritative, moving biography. . . . Walser made of his own multiform solitudes a gift to the outside world, offering readers an existential sympathy of a kind for which only he could find the appropriate literary expression.”—Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement

The great Swiss-German modernist...

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AwardsBiographyLiterary BiographyEuropean Literary BiographyGerman Literary BiographyLiterary Biography - Europe - General & Miscellaneous2021 National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistsNational Book Critics Circle AwardsPrevious Finalists - National Book Critics Circle Awards