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1 review
Robert Walser

Serpent's Tail, 1993

A good book for lovers of Kafka
This is a collection of some great sad stories. They're not for everyone, however. I've noticed I have to be in the right mood to read them; otherwise I might reread a story I really liked and not understand the point in it at all. They're mostly stories about alienated characters, like the stork who is in love with the hedgehog and pines away like a hunger artist, while the hedgehog, lowly ...

Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Music Culture)

4 reviews
Robert Walser

Wesleyan, 1993

Heavy Metal Gets Its Due
I'm currently taking a class on cultural anthropology right now, and as a huge music buff / budding musician, I found this gem while searching the racks at my university. Not only did it help me to realize the cultural biases surrounding a type of music that I am fond of, but also expand my mind in terms of musical application, song construction, and the true inspiration for some of Heavy Metal's ...

Masquerade and Other Stories (Quartet Encounters)

2 reviews
Robert Walser

Texas Bookman, 1996

Heartbreaking Dream Shorts
Walser is a magician of interiors that spiral into an incomprehensible, slightly threatening, but tenderly mysterious world. Follow his mind as it walks through his stories. Maintaining his stance of wide-eyed wonder on the margins of a world of sinister adult mediocrity which many of us strive daily to avoid (even as we're sentimentally attracted to it), he is a navigator scribbling out a ...

Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History

3 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

A great book for the true jazz lover
While a student in Professor Walser's Jazz class at UCLA, I was one of several students lucky enough to have read every chapter before it made it to press. Every chapter was like a time machine, transporting us back in time to an era where racism and sexism took a toll on some musicians while only strengthening the resolve of others. This book was, at the time, one of the best readings I had ...

The Robber

3 reviews
Robert Walser

Bison Books, 2000

Our Robber is a humble man w/an inborn pride of thieves
In review of writers far worthier than I, and contemporaneous of Walser: Robert Musil said: Walser writes as "an ice-skater executes his long curves & figures...these little endlessnesses waft over into the void...as in the hours between a suicide's decision and final act(1914). The most Illuminated of all assessors of literary greatness, Walter Benjamin said (admittedly of Walser's anti-fairy ...

Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932

2 reviews
Robert Walser

Bison Books, 2005

why has no one reviewed this?
More Walser in English is ALWAYS a good thing - few pleasures can surpass going to the bookstore & discovering that a new volume is out, though it makes me unhappy that I heard nothing about this being published. Walser is somebody who matters. This is a collection of small pieces, some purely fictional, some not quite so fictional; some were published while he was alive & some are from his ...

Institute Benjamenta (Extraordinary Classics)

1 review
Robert Walser

Serpent's Tail, 1997

a major work
This book is another translation of Jakob von Gunten. In Institute Benjamenta, young men learn to be perfect zeros. In this pre-kafkaien, labyrinthine and absurd world, Jakob is a true forerunner of Joseph K. But he may also be Robert Walser's own brother : a servant convinced of his inferiority, an anti-hero. Walser wrote only a few novels for he feared not to be up to it... and he was ...

The Assistant (New Directions Paperbook)

3 reviews
Robert Walser

New Directions, 2007

"Curse those bacon-and-sausage eaters!"
Joseph Marti, a young man between jobs, gains the position of Assistant at the villa and workplace of Carl Tobler, a struggling and possibly-cockamamie inventor. Despite Tobler's unpromising professional struggle and his lack of investors, he puts no brakes on his expensive joie de vivre. Joseph ends up smoking cheroots, sending away creditors, taking hilarious dictations, alternately ...

Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics)

12 reviews
Robert Walser

NYRB Classics, 1999

A strange wonderful book
Jakov von Gunten is not like any novel I have read before and not, despite all the comparisons, like any novel of Kafka's. It is more like a series of first person reflections, with only the repeating cast of characters and the narrator to hold the novel together. Kafka's novels all have a certain narrative drive, and here there is very little, although the story of the slow dissolution of the ...

Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

4 reviews
Robert Walser

NYRB Classics, 2002

Genius Worth Rediscovering
Although his novel "Jakob von Gunten" is a masterpiece, the maniacal genius of Walser is more easily discovered in his short fiction. If Kafka's vision is maddening and claustrophobic, Walser, who deals with a similar kind of surrealistic world, applies a lighter, more deftly playful touch. Sometimes, the puns and literary license Walser take can be willful and test a reader's patience, but the ...

L'Etang
Robert Walser

Zoé, 1999

Aus dem Bleistiftgebiet. Ausgabe in sechs Bänden. Mikrogramme 1924 - 1933.
Robert Walser

Suhrkamp, 2003

Selected Short Writings (German Library)
Elias Canetti, Hermann Broch, ...

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006

• A unique collection of German-language writers bound by a Bohemian sensibility • Canetti is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1981) The literature of the Wiener Moderne exhibits biting social satire and other related aspects, first emanating from Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a prolific writer, difficult to classify, who reminds people of Jonathan Swift. Novelists and essayists Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Elias Canetti ...

Sur quelques-uns et sur lui-même
Robert Walser

Gallimard, 1994

Porcelaine. Scènes dialoguées
Robert Walser, Marion Graf

Zoé, 2000

Die Gedichte.
Robert Walser, Jochen. Greven

Suhrkamp, 1999

Music, Society, Education (Music/Culture)

3 reviews
Christopher Small

Wesleyan, 1996

Groundbreaking
Anyone with an interest in the emergence of Avant-Garde in Western classical music should read this book. Those with general interests in music -- in rock or jazz or "world" -- should also pick it up. Small's well-argued points about Western ideals and preconceptions of music -- especially its limitations -- are compelling. A classic in music scholarship!

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