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Bernofsky, Susan,

Clairvoyant of the small : the life of Robert Walser / Susan Bernofsky. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest-social outcasts and artists as well as the impoverished, marginalized, and forgotten-prompted W. G. Sebald to dub him "a clairvoyant of the small." His revolutionary use of short prose forms had an enormous influence on Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Robert Musil, and many others.

ISBN: 0300258267 9780300258264

Source: 22573/ctv1mf4xjw JSTOR

Subjects--Personal Names:
Walser, Robert, 1878-1956.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Authors, Swiss--20th century--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PT2647.A64 / Z59 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 833/.912