walk

Der Spaziergang und andere Geschichten

【Editor's Recommendation】
⭐A collection of short and medium-length stories by Robert Walser, the founder of modern German literature, carefully selected and presented in a brand new way!
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!
⭐ “Everyday things are beautiful and rich enough to spark poetic sparks.”
In the little girl's eyes, there is the hypocrisy of the entire Berlin literary and artistic circle;
The poor worker would write a couple of short prose poems when he had some free time;
A man without a head, carrying a hollow pumpkin just above his shoulders;
The poet Hölderlin struggled with hopeless love and became schizophrenic;
When the snow falls, everything is plunged into pure white loneliness...
Unlike his contemporaries who aimed to encompass the whole of humanity, Walser chose to use his pen to depict the subtleties of everyday life.
⭐The selection spans Walser's creative career, striving to fully present his creative themes and style. The translator of this book, Wang Yukuan, carefully selected 25 representative novels from Walser's 9 collections.
And write an introduction combining the author's life, chronology of works and appreciation of articles,
Lead readers to review the short life of this great writer.
Designed by renowned young designer Xihe, this small-format, square-spine hardcover features a cool, mountain-inspired design. The spine is finished with a textured, four-color Yuhua paper. The overlapping peaks and ridges evoke the natural environment surrounding 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 sand-gray Yuhua paper represents the warm smell of earth. Take "Walk" with you and take a walk with Walser!
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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 work 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... The Walk is one of the most profound products of modern literature.
——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.
—Giordio Agamben Walser’s best qualities are in his short stories, which examine the watercolor shades of mood with the slightest irony, and in his essays, which deal with the ebb and flow of emotion with the sensitivity of a butterfly’s wing. His own uneven life, heartbreaking in its own way, is his only real subject matter.
——JM Coetzee is one of the greatest German-language writers of the 20th century.
—Juan José Sale is funny and incredibly beautiful.
—John Ashbery "A Walk" is an ideal starting point for reading Walser, building a kind of bridge between his novels and his miniature manuscripts... The walk in the novel is a search for freedom, itself an act of freedom; while writing can be as abusive as one wants or conceal a veneer of decorum. "A Walk" attempts to bring writing close to life, subjecting it to circumstances and chance encounters. Despite its obvious artificiality, the story remains deeply moving.
—The Times Literary Supplement
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【Content Introduction】
On Christmas Day 1956, Robert Walser died in the snow of the Alps.
First he was discovered by a hunting dog, then by nearby farmers, and then by the whole world.
The literary world finally began to pay attention to this writer who was down and out during his lifetime.
In fact, novels are only the tip of the iceberg of his creations.
It was the large number of short and medium-length works with free genres that truly established Walser's literary status:
There are dark and melancholic fairy tales for adults, and the difficult lives of little people.
There are biographical fictions about previous writers and detailed depictions of natural landscapes.
This book selects twenty-five of them, striving to fully present Walser's creative themes and style.

2023-11-01

广西师范大学出版社

wild spring

384

9787559862334