A Little Ramble

A Little Ramble

Author: Robert Walser

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780811220996

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Over 50 original full-color artworks address newly translated writings of Robert Walser


The Ramble Shamble Children

The Ramble Shamble Children

Author: Christina Soontornvat

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13: 0399545824

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New picture book by a two-time Newbery Honor-winning author! The delightful story of an unconventional family of kids who learn the ups and downs of working together. Merra, Locky, Roozle, Finn, and little Jory love their ramble shamble house. It's a lot of work taking care of the garden, the chickens, and themselves, but they all pitch in to make it easier--even Jory, who looks after the mud puddles. When they come across a picture of a "proper" house in a book, they start wondering if their own home is good enough. So they get to work "propering up" the garden, the chickens, and even the mud puddles. But the results aren't exactly what they expected, and when their now-proper household's youngest member goes missing, they realize that their ramble shamble home might be just right for their family, after all.


Selected Stories

Selected Stories

Author: Robert Walser

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1466834951

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In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."


Looking at Pictures

Looking at Pictures

Author: Robert Walser

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780811224246

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A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art


The Assistant

The Assistant

Author: Robert Walser

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780811215909

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The Assistant by Robert Walser--who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald--is now presented in English for the very first time.


Microscripts

Microscripts

Author: Robert Walser

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780811220330

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Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.


Fairy Tales: Dramolettes

Fairy Tales: Dramolettes

Author: Robert Walser

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 0811224902

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Three mini-plays by the German wunderkind and asylum-dweller. Fairy Tales gathers the unconventional verse dramolettes of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Narrated in Walser's inimitable, playful language, these theatrical pieces overturn traditional notions of the fairy tale, transforming the Brothers Grimm into metatheater, even metareflections. Snow White forgives the evil queen for trying to kill her, Cinderella doubts her prince and enjoys being hated by her evil stepsisters; the Fairy Tale itself is a character who encourages her to stay within the confines of the story. Sleeping Beauty, the royal family, and its retainers are not happy about being woken from their sleep by an absurd, unpretentious, Walser-like hero. Mary and Joseph are taken aback by what lies in store for their baby Jesus.


Walks with Walser

Walks with Walser

Author: Carl Seelig

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 0811221407

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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 favorite 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.