Robert Walser



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Robert Walser

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born
April 15, 1878 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

died
December 25, 1956

gender
male

website

genre
Literature & Fiction

influences
Friedrich Schiller


About this author

Robert Walser, a German-Swiss prose writer and novelist, enjoyed high repute among a select group of authors and critics in Berlin early in his career, only to become nearly forgotten by the time he committed himself to the Waldau mental clinic in Bern in January 1929. Since his death in 1956, however, Walser has been recognized as German Switzerland's leading author of the first half of the twentieth century, perhaps Switzerland's single significant modernist. In his homeland he has served as an emboldening exemplar and a national classic during the unparalleled expansion of German-Swiss literature of the last two generations.

Walser's writing is characterized by its linguistic sophistication and animation. His work exhibits several sets of...more


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Average rating: 4.13 · 2,307 ratings · 356 reviews · 68 distinct works
Jakob von Gunten
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 648 ratings — published 1909 — 25 editions
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Selected Stories
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions
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The Assistant
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1972 — 15 editions
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The Tanners
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1907 — 17 editions
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Microscripts
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions
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The Robber
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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Masquerade and Other Stories
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 74 ratings — 3 editions
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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The Walk
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1917 — 11 editions
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Quotes by Robert Walser

“That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
tags: senselessness , truth
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“I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”
― Robert Walser, The Tanners
tags: future , present , value
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“To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.”
― Robert Walser
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