TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernofsky,Susan
TI  - Clairvoyant of the small: the life of Robert Walser 
SN  - 0300258267
AV  - PT2647.A64 Z59 2021
U1  - 833/.912 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Walser, Robert,
KW  - Authors, Swiss
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
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