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Robert Walser

Born

in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

April 15, 1878

Died

December 25, 1956

Website

http://www.walser-archiv.ch/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Friedrich Schiller, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...more

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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: 3.91 · 20,643 ratings · 2,554 reviews · 219 distinct works • Similar authors

	Jakob von Gunten 3.88 avg rating — 5,971 ratings — published 1909 — 133 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Walk by Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Translator), Susan Bernofsky (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 2,858 ratings — published 1917 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Stories by Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Translator), Susan Sontag (Preface by) 4.09 avg rating — 2,405 ratings — published 1917 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tanners by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (Translator), W.G. Sebald (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 1,825 ratings — published 1907 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Assistant 3.99 avg rating — 1,694 ratings — published 1908 — 105 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berlin Stories by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (Introduction), Jochen Greven (Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 1,054 ratings — published 1956 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Robber by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky 4.02 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 1925 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Microscripts by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (Translator), Walter Benjamin (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 648 ratings — published 1985 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Walser, Damion Searls (Goodreads Author) (Translation), Ben Lerner (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 575 ratings — published 1903 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser, Tom Whalen (Translator), Nicole Kongeter (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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

136 likes

“Ultimately, the most romantic thing is the heart, and every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls.”
― Robert Walser, The Walk and Other Stories

tags: heart

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Las horas, de Michael Cunningham

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Intimidad, de Hanif Kureishi

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En lugar seguro, de Wallace Stegner

1 vote, 2.1%

El paseo, de Robert Walser

1 vote, 2.1%

Cinco horas con Mario, de Miguel Delibes

1 vote, 2.1%

Mariposa en la sombra, de Gilly Macmillan

1 vote, 2.1%

La caída de Madrid, de Rafael Chirbes

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Chesil Beach, de Ian McEwan

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Un día en la vida de Iván Denisovich, de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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La Luz del Día, de Graham Swift

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El último encuentro. de Sándor Márai

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Berlin secreto, de Franz Hessel

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Tuyo es el mañana, de Pablo Martín Sánchez

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Ve y dilo en la montaña, de James Baldwin

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Cosmopolis, de Don DeLillo

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Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer sensible, de Constance de Salm

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Un hombre que duerme, de Georges Perec

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El joven vendedor y el estilo de vida fluido, de Fernando San Basilio

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