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Selected Stories

By Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Translator), Susan Sontag (Foreword by)
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By Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Translator), Susan Sontag (Foreword by)
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In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing.

Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walt...

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