{"product_id":"selected-stories-paperback-5","title":"Selected Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Walser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Middleton\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eSusan Sontag\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWalser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters--revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald--and \u003ci\u003eSelected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e gives the fullest display of his talent. He is most at home in the mode of short fiction, according to J. M. Coetzee in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. The stories show him at his dazzling best.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Walser\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Switzerland in 1878. He wrote nine novels and hundreds of stories before being hospitalized for mental illness in 1933. He died in 1956.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.25 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42694702694463,"sku":"9780374533625","price":22.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/42c05ecb1640fdeaeb4a06b89b3f391d.webp?v=1765001965","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/selected-stories-paperback-5","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}