Robert Walser

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/11/08/dancing-to-the-rhythms-of-robert-walser/
https://www.robertwalser.nl/nervos-zenuwachtig/

Am 12.11.19 um 03:10 schrieb 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.
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