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Robert Walser’s work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?\"—Rivka Galchen, \u003cem\u003eHarper’s Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walser’s work, \u003cem\u003eThirty Poems\u003c\/em\u003e collects famed translator Christopher Middleton’s favorite poems from the more than five hundred Walser wrote. The illustrations range from an early poem in perfect copperplate handwriting, to one from a 1927 Czech-German newspaper, to a microscript.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e64 pages\u003cbr\u003eNew Directions, 2012\u003cbr\u003e5.3 x 0.4 x 7.3 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780811220019\u003cbr\u003ePoetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":263524960,"sku":"9780811220019","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Thirty-Poems_Robert-Walser_Christopher-Middleton.jpg?v=1593201077"},{"product_id":"berlin-stories","title":"Berlin Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Robert Walser\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Susan Bernofsky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser’s work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be? If Emily Dickinson made cathedrals of em dashes and capital letters and the angle of winter light, Walser accomplishes the feat with, well, ladies’ feet and trousers, and little emotive words like joy, uncapitalized.\"—Rivka Galchen,\u003cem\u003e Harper’s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I think it was Herman Hesse who said that if you can stomach Robert Walser’s prose, you can’t help but fall in love with it, and I fell in love with it pretty quickly. He’s guileless but not stupid, an admiring observer of the inconsequential...He became a chronicler of the ordinary (interestingly, at around the same time Joyce, on the other side of Europe, was doing the same). And in this unbelievably delightful and timeless collection of short pieces, we can recover the delight of ordinary, uncondescending appreciation, places where the vacant-minded stroller can take ‘peculiar pleasure.’\"—Nicholas Lezard, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. \u003cem\u003eBerlin Stories\u003c\/em\u003e collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters’ galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Originally appearing in literary magazines as well as the feuilleton sections of newspapers, the early stories are characterized by a joyous urgency and the generosity of an unconventional guide. Later pieces take the form of more personal reflections on the writing process, memories, and character studies. All are full of counter-intuitive images and vignettes of startling clarity, showcasing a unique talent for whom no detail was trivial, at grips with a city diving headlong into modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003eNew York Review of Books, 2012\u003cbr\u003e5 x 0.4 x 8 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781590174548\u003cbr\u003eShort Stories\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":263525028,"sku":"9781590174548","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Berlin-Stories_Robert-Walser_Susan-Bernofsky.jpg?v=1593200924"},{"product_id":"the-robber","title":"The Robber","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Robert Walser\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Susan Bernofsky\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Robber\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert Walser’s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby’s mouth as an ashtray. Walser’s novel spoofs the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e141 pages\u003cbr\u003eUniversity of Nebraska Press, 2007\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 x 8.5 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780803298095\u003cbr\u003eFiction, Satire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":263525040,"sku":"9780803298095","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Walser_The_Robber.jpg?v=1634934883"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/collections\/Walser.jpg?v=1359045157","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/collections\/bookstore-literature-robert-walser.oembed","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}