The Assistant by Robert Walser
The Assistant by Robert Walserwho was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebaldis now presented in English for the very first time.
"Essential, exquisitely poised absurdity" -- Christian Carly - The New York Review of Books
Robert Walser (1878–1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence working as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant while producing essays, stories, and novels. In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium—where he remained for the rest of his life. "I am not here to write," Walser said, "but to be mad." Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811215909 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811215903 |
| Title | The Assistant |
| Author | Robert Walser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2007-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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