assistant

Der Gehülfe

【Editor's Recommendation】
⭐Robert Walser, the founder of modern German literature, presents a new version of his classic novel!
He is praised as "a walker who missed time", "an observer of subtleties", and "a poet whose fate is like snow".
He is a buried genius writer who has been persistently writing books and biographies for the little people throughout his life.
He is as famous as Musil and Kafka, has a profound influence, and is posthumously recognized as the founder of modern German literature.
Robert Walser - "Berlin Trilogy" + Selected Stories, Directly Translated from German, New Translation Published Together!
⭐Your favorite authors love Robert Walser!
Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Hermann Hesse, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Bernhard, Elias Canetti, Winfried Sebald, Martin Walser, Susan Sontag, JM Coetzee, Peter Handke… all highly recommended!
A gentle lament for escaping from one's workstation, a heartbreaking confession from a worker who has lived through a century: a disposable assistant position, a job with pitifully low pay;
A foolish boss who does stupid things, and his wife who feels that something bad is about to happen;
A village full of gossip, a tavern that shelters fallen souls.
Everything seems to belong to another time and space, and it seems as if the present was judged a hundred years ago.
⭐Walser-style virtue: Even a humble person has the courage to resist power and domination. The second of the "Berlin Trilogy", based on Walser's own real experience as an "assistant" in the Abendsten villa.
As a writer who has never achieved success in his life, Walser focuses on the lives of ordinary people.
Closer to the oppressed than to the oppressors, closer to the employees than to the bosses, closer to the bottom than to the top.
In the novel, the assistant who lives under someone else's roof will occasionally show resistance to power and rule.
He said: "For some people, humility is life's last refuge."
Designed by renowned young designer Xihe, this small-format, square-spine hardcover features a cool, mountain-inspired design. The four-color Yuhua paper creates a textured, bound spine, showcasing the peaks and ridges that surround the Swiss author.
The cold and solemn cover is like the consistent tone of German literature, like making fire in the snow, with a cold face and a warm heart;
The cover is made of gray Yuhua paper, 110*185 square spine hardcover, elegant and compact, so you can go out without worries.
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【Celebrity Recommendation】
If Walser had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place.
—Hermann Hesse It is in the works of Robert Walser that we first notice an extraordinary, indescribable sense of sparseness. This emptiness is weight, this confusion is perseverance—this is the fact that the reader can think of when reading Walser's works.
——Walter Benjamin Walser's works are full of tenderness, fantasy, freedom and rich moral connotations, which remind people of those non-utilitarian and lazy years.
—Robert Musil: The moral core of Walser's art lies in the resistance to power and domination... Walserian virtues can only be found in the most sophisticated and elegant works of art. He is the Paul Klee of words, the good-tempered Beckett, a truly brilliant and heartbreaking writer.
—Susan Sontag How can one understand a writer tormented by shadows yet who ignites the softest light on every page, a writer who creates humorous sketches out of the purest despair, a writer who almost always writes about the same things but never repeats himself, a writer who stands firmly on the ground yet is always lost in the clouds? Walser has always been my constant companion.
—Winfried Sebald Walser’s style is difficult to imitate because it hangs over an abyss that no one has yet been able to penetrate…But Walser’s characters, with a certain a priori balance, smoothly walk on the edge of the abyss and almost dance on it.
—Giorgio Agamben "The Assistant" is Walser's most ambitious and courageous novel. Its ambition lies not in the scale of its action but in its effort to move beyond the diminished and lesser to a more comprehensive human life. A haunting and heart-wrenching book.
—JM Coetzee
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【Content Introduction】
Young Joseph came to Berensweil and joined the Changgeng Star Villa.
Engineer Mr. Tobler hired him as an assistant to help him sell his inventions.
The assistant enjoyed a comfortable living condition in the villa, but he had not received his salary for a long time.
A large number of bills were sent, but the engineer refused to pay them and asked his assistant to make excuses.
The Tobler children's treatment ranged from being spoiled to being abused.
The assistant saw it all but didn't know whether to intervene.
Is there a hidden crisis behind the glamorous life in the manor?
But where will Joseph go with a job that doesn't pay?

2023-11-01

广西师范大学出版社

wild spring

352

9787559862754