Ebook {Epub PDF} Microscripts by Robert Walser

 · Overview. Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author’s death in At first considered Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation. From Robert Walser's Microscripts (© Suhrkamp Verlag Zurich and Frankfurt am Main, /Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and Christine Burgin, ) The apotheosis of this pencil system was The Robber, written in but deciphered much later and published only in  · The aim of Microscripts, a recent translation of selected of Walser’s minor writings, is to bring out the material aspects of this nervousness, in texts where it takes what might be its most extreme form. The volume collects twenty-five short sketches Walser penciled in microscopic script on loose strips of paper: business cards, envelopes, duodecimo pulp fiction covers.

Robert Walser's Microscripts. Meter and Grindstone Paul Valéry says somewhere: "Thinking is an indefinite deletion." And Walter Benjamin recalls Robert Walser's "admission that he never corrected a single line" ("We do not have to believe this, but would be well advised to do so. For we can set our minds at rest by realizing that. (Robert Walser microscripts courtesy of Robert Walser Archive, Bern courtesy New Directions and Christine Burgin) More: Robert Walser Walter Benjamin. Books Fiction. Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author.

Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high, came to light only after the author's death in Microscripts by Walser, Robert and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Microscripts. by. Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (Translator), Walter Benjamin (Contributor) · Rating details · ratings · 70 reviews. Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high, came to light only after the author’s death in