<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Susan Sontag describes Walser as 'a good-humoured, 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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. <p/>Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters--revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald--and <i>Selected Stories</i> gives the fullest display of his talent. He is most at home in the mode of short fiction, according to J. M. Coetzee in <i>The New York Review of Books</i>. The stories show him at his dazzling best.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>[A] great novelist, one of the last century's finest.--<i>The Independent</i> <p/><i></i>An excellent introduction to a masterful writer.--<i>Publishers Weekly</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Robert Walser</b> was born in Switzerland in 1878. He wrote nine novels and hundreds of stories before being hospitalized for mental illness in 1933. He died in 1956.</p>
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