Ebook {Epub PDF} The Assistant by Robert Walser

 · ‘I’m not here to write, I’m here to be mad,’ he told a visitor. Robert Walser died of a heart attack on Christmas Day, He had been walking in the snow not far from the asylum where he had been living for 23 years. After that, The Assistant has a lot to live up to. It’s a semi-autobiographical novel, largely free of the modernist effects we might www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.  · THE ASSISTANT. by Robert Walser translated by Susan Bernofsky ‧ RELEASE DATE: J. The mixed pleasures of introspection and tensions between solitude and society are wryly considered in the great, eccentric Swiss author’s previously untranslated novel. Walser (–), best known for his autobiographical novel Jakob von Gunten and his virtually Author: Robert Walser.  · Charged with compassion, and an utterly unique radiance of vision, Walser is as Susan Sontag exclaimed "a truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer." The Assistant is his breathtaking novel, translated by award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Joseph, hired to become an inventor's new assistant, arrives one rainy Monday morning at Technical Engineer Karl Tobler's splendid hilltop Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation.

And Walser's notion of smallness came to enfold the entire world.' ★★★★★ 'The Assistant is his breathtaking novel, translated by award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Joseph, hired to become an inventor's new assistant, arrives one rainy Monday morning at Technical Engineer Karl Tobler's splendid hilltop villa: he is at. The Assistant By Robert Walser Translated by Susan Bernofsky (New Directions, pp., $) I. By now the snapshot of the dead Robert Walser has become one of German literature's most often. The Assistant by Robert Walser Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place").

Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J. M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Robert Walser wrote The Assistant in ,soon after attending a course in becoming a servant, and while occasionally working as a secretary in Berlin. The book is about a young man, Joseph Marti, who secures a position as live-in personal assistant to an inventor and entrepeneur, Carl Tobler, who lives with his wife and four children in an elegant lake-side house beautiful mountainous country. Robert Walser died of a heart attack on Christmas Day, He had been walking in the snow not far from the asylum where he had been living for 23 years. After that, The Assistant has a lot to live up to. It’s a semi-autobiographical novel, largely free of the modernist effects we might expect.