Robert Walser
Swiss author whose quietly radical short fiction and novels have gained increasing recognition as among the most distinctive contributions to German-language modernism. Jakob von Gunten is his masterpiece.
Works
- Jakob von GuntenYoung student documents his education at institute for servants
- The TannersImpoverished artist brothers navigate love and survival in city
- The AssistantMan falls into servitude and observes human nature closely
- Fritz Kochers AufsatzeYoung man compiles essays on growing up and school
- MicroscriptsFragment collection of Walser's final intimate writings