Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

by Susan Bernofsky

Book Overview

The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator

Finalist for the 2021 NBCC Award for Biography

"[An] authoritative, moving biography. . . . Walser made of his own multiform solitudes a gift to the outside world, offering readers an existential sympathy of a kind for which only he could find the appropriate literary expression."--Paul...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300220642
• ISBN13: 9780300220643
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"