Selected Stories (FSG Classics)

Susan Sontag Describes Walser As 'a Good-humoured, 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. Response To A Request -- Flower Days -- Trousers -- Two Strange Stories -- Balloon Journey -- Kleist In Thun -- The Job Application -- The Boat -- A Little Ramble -- Helbling's Story -- Little Berliner -- Nervous -- The Walk -- So! I've Got You -- Nothing At All -- Kienast -- Poets -- Frau Wilke -- The Street (1) -- Snowdrops -- Winter -- The She-owl -- Knocking -- Titus -- Vladimir -- Parisian Newspapers -- Monkey -- Dostoevsky's Idiot -- Am I Demanding? -- The Little Tree -- Stork And Hedgehog -- A Contribution To The Celebration Of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer -- A Sort Of Speech -- A Letter To Therese Breitbach -- A Village Tale -- Aviator -- Pimp -- Masters And Workers -- Essay Of Freedom -- A Biedermeier Story -- The Honeymoon -- Thoughts On Cezanne. Robert Walser ; Translated From The German By Christopher Middleton And Others ; With A Foreword By Susan Sontag. ON CORNFLOWER Day, when everyone struts around in blue, it became evident how much the writer of the present scientific treatise feels himself to be a good, innocent child of his times.