Poco a poco Robert Walser va ocupando el lugar que le corresponde como uno d elos grandes escritores de lengua alemana y uno de los clásicos del siglo XX. Muy apreciado por sus contemporáneos –Kafka,
"«Un Paul Klee en prosa... un Beckett dulce y con buen humor... el eslabón perdido entre Kleist y Kafka». SUSAN SONTAG
«No es un visionario expresionista que profetiza el fin del mundo, sino más bien
Tal com un dia va fer el mateix Robert Walser, el jove Joseph es trasllada a viure a casa de lenginyer Tobler, que lha contractat com a ajudant. La casa és preciosa i corona un turó a la vora dun
Dressed in his cheap, battered suit, Joseph Marti arrives at the impressive villa of Karl Tobler, an enthusiastic but ill-starred inventor, to begin employment as his clerk. Tobler is determined to finance his family's lavish lifestyle with the proceeds from his latest idea - a clock adorned with advertisements. But Tobler's grand plans are destined for failure and the household, including Marti, refuse to acknowledge their approaching ruin. Robert Walser claimed to have written The Assistant , a semi-autobiographical work, in just six weeks as an entry for a literary competition. The second of his few surviving novels, it is now regarded as major work of modernist literature.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book. A musicologist and cultural critic as well as a professional musician, Robert Walser offers a comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal in Running with the Devil. Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music attracts and embodies cultural conflicts that are central to our society. Walser explores how and why heavy metal works, both musically and socially, and at the same time uses metal to investigate contemporary formations of identity, community, gender, and power.
"¿Acaso Simon Tanner no vagabundea, nadando en la felicidad, para no producir nada, a no ser el goce del lector?"Franz Kafka.De 1905 a 1913 el escritor suizo Robert Walser vive en Berlín, donde el poeta Christian Morgenstern lee Los hermanos Tanner, su primera y mas celebrada novela, que recomienda al editor Bruno Cassirer: "Este hombre hablara asi mientras viva y sus libros seran un extraño y fascinante espejo de la vida". Como todas las obras de Walser esta entusiasma a criticos y escritores, pues, al igual que El ayudante y Jakob von Gunten, sus otras dos grandes novelas, retrata con excepcional intensidad el perfil errante de su autor, uno de los novelistas que mas influencia ha ejercido sobre tres generaciones de escritores alemanes.
