Walks With Walser - Couverture souple

Seelig, Carl

 
9780811221399: Walks With Walser
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0811221393 ISBN 13 : 9780811221399
Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017

Synopsis

A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in English.

After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favourite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser's friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations.

As they strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser famously replied: I'm not here to write, I'm here to be mad. Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers the fullest available account of this wonderful writer's inner and outer life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Carl Seelig (1894 1962) was a Swiss editor and writer and Robert Walser s friend, guardian, and literary executor. He was a selfless supporter of countless other writers, and was also Albert Einstein s first biographer.

Anne Posten is a literary translator based in New York.

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Éditeur
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0811221393
ISBN 13 
9780811221399
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
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Personne responsable
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