The Walk

by Robert Walser

Book Overview

A pseudo-biographical "stroll" through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser's short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantly considered. Without walking, "I would be dead," Walser explains, "and my profession, which I love passionately, would be destroyed. Because it is on walks that the lore of nature and the lore of the country are revealed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811219925
• ISBN13: 9780811219921
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 6.8"