Comedies Walser Robert
This book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette.Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert…
Specifikacia Comedies Walser Robert
This book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette.Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little-known work has been translated into English, readers have discovered a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildering era.The short plays presented here, inspired by the German theater Walser enjoyed in his youth, while never meant to be performed, present scenes, characters, and situations that comment on the brutality of fairy tales, the impossibilities of love, the dark fate of the Christ child (and Walser himself), and more. At the same time, like all of Walser's work they are shot through with a humor that