Robert Wasler

[David Morris]

"This American Life" Featured this guy last weekend.  I'm going to tryout
his Berlin Stories.

Robert Walser (15 April 1878 – 25 December 1956) was a German
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language>-speaking Swiss
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_people> writer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walser_(writer)

Walser is understood to be the missing link between Kleist
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Kleist> and Kafka
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka>.[1]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walser_(writer)#cite_note-1> "Indeed",
writes Susan Sontag <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Sontag>, "at the
time [of Walser's writing], it was more likely to be Kafka [who was
understood by posterity] through the prism of Walser. Robert Musil
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Musil>, another admirer among
Walser's contemporaries, when he first read Kafka pronounced [Kafka's work]
as, 'a peculiar case of the Walser type.'"[2]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walser_(writer)#cite_note-2> Walser
was admired early on by writers including Musil, Hermann Hesse
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse>, Stefan Zweig
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig>, Walter Benjamin
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin> and Franz Kafka,[3]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walser_(writer)#cite_note-3> and
was in fact better known during his lifetime than Kafka or Benjamin, for
example, were known in their lifetimes.