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Condition
Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Release Year
2010
ISBN
9780811218801
Book Title
Microscripts
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Item Length
9.2 in
Publication Year
2010
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Robert Walser
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Collections
Topic
European / German, European / General, Literary
Item Weight
19.7 Oz
Item Width
6.7 in
Number of Pages
160 Pages
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811218805
ISBN-13
9780811218801
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79734582

Product Key Features

Book Title
Microscripts
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
European / German, European / General, Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Collections
Author
Robert Walser
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
19.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-051824
Reviews
[These] painstakingly transcribed texts brought to light some of Walser's most beautiful and haunting writing . . . . The incredible shrinking writer is a major 20th-century prose artist who, for all that the modern world seems to have passed him by, fulfills the modern criterion: he sounds like nobody else., [These] painstakingly transcribed texts brought to light some of Walser's most beautiful and haunting writing . . . .  The incredible shrinking writer is a major 20th-century prose artist who, for all that the modern world seems to have passed him by, fulfills the modern criterion: he sounds like nobody else.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
833/.912
Synopsis
W. G. Sebald called Robert Walser "a clairvoyant of the small," and nowhere is the phrase more apt than in his "microscripts.", 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 1956. At first considered a secret code, the microscripts were eventually discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of a German script: a whole story could fit on the back of abusiness card. Selected from the six-volume German transcriptions from the original microscripts, these 25 short pieces are gathered in this gorgeously illustrated co-publication with the Christine Burgin Gallery. Each microscript is reproduced in full color in its original form: the detached cover of a trashy crime novel, a disappointing letter, a receipt of payment. Sometimes Walser used the pages of small tear-off calendars (but only after cutting them lengthwise and filling up each half with text).Schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, the radio, pigs (and how none of us can deny being one), jealousy, Van Gogh and marriage proposals are some of Walser's subjects. These texts take strength from Walser's motto: To be small and to stay small." ", Selected from the six-volume German transcriptions from the original microscripts, these 25 short pieces are gathered in this gorgeously illustrated co-publication with the Christine Burgin Gallery. Each microscript is reproduced in full color in its original form: the detached cover of a trashy crime novel, a disappointing letter, a receipt of payment. Sometimes Walser used the pages of small tear-off calendars (but only after cutting them lengthwise and filling up each half with text). Schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, the radio, pigs (and how none of us can deny being one), jealousy, Van Gogh and marriage proposals are some of Walser's subjects. These texts take strength from Walser's motto: "To be small and to stay small."
LC Classification Number
PT2647.A64A2 2009

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