"Masquerade" and Other Stories

By Robert Walser

Book Overview

Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his "true profession." From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed a schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more than a thousand short stories and prose pieces.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801839459
• ISBN13: 9780801839450
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher