Clairvoyant of the Small / Susan Bernofsky.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Yale University Press, 2021Description: viii, 378 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, portraits 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300220643
- 833/.912 23
- PD
- PD
- Gz Walser, Robert
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest-social outcasts and artists as well as the impoverished, marginalized, and forgotten-prompted W. G. Sebald to dub him "a clairvoyant of the small." His revolutionary use of short prose forms had an enormous influence on Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Robert Musil, and many others.