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Nicole Köngeter Annette Wiesner Tom Whalen Girlfriends, Ghosts, And (Paperback)
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- Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories
- Publication Name
- Girlfriends, Ghosts, And Other Stories
- Title
- Girlfriends, Ghosts, And Other Stories
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1681370166
- EAN
- 9781681370163
- ISBN
- 9781681370163
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 13/09/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 6.8 Oz
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories brings together eighty-one brief texts spanning Robert Walser's career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in Bern. Many were published in the feuilleton sections of newspapers during Walser's life; others were jotted down on slips of paper and all but forgotten. Together they string together small nutshells of consciousness, idiosyncratic and vulnerable, genuine in their irony, wistful in their humor. The portraits and landscapes here are observed with tenderness and from a place of great anxiety. Some dwell on childish or transient topics-carousels, the latest hairstyles, an ekphrasis of the illustrations in a picture book-others on the grand themes of nature, art, and love. But they remain conversational, almost lighter than air. Every emotion ventured takes on the weight of a sincerity that is imperiled as soon as it comes into contact with the outside world, which retains all of the novelty it had in childhood-and all of the danger. Walser's speakers are attuned to the silent music of being; students of the ineffable and neighbors to madness, they are now exhilarated, now paralyzed by frequencies inaudible to less sensitive ears.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681370166
ISBN-13
9781681370163
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219161374
Product Key Features
Book Title
Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pt2647.A64a2 2016
Reviews
"The inimitable output of the belatedly canonized Swiss writer Walser proves to be a gift that keeps on giving...Confirmed Walser fanatics will find countless examples of his reliably strange wit and bracing sincerity...The beauty and melancholy of landscapes such as 'Autumn Afternoon' are accompanied by autobiographical, virtuosic critical pieces such as 'Walser on Walser' and 'Something On Writing' that show that there are still surprises to be had even this far into the writer's seemingly bottomless catalogue." -- Publishers Weekly "Considered by contemporaries to be an inspiration for Kafka and a kindred spirit, Walser is generally lighter and more playful and very attuned to detail." -- Kirkus Reviews "Walser's energy, curiosity and observational brilliance never flags, whether it concerns a morning walk, a playful kitten, a moment of transcendence on a terrace above the mist veiled lake of Biel, or a conversation with himself." --Will Stone, TLS "With the publication of Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories , we have one more opportunity to discover this extraordinary Swiss writer...With his intrusions into the text, Walser shows a delightful disregard for the established boundaries between reader and writer...The result is a literature that laughs at itself, an utterly original form of art." --A.M. Kaempf, Los Angeles Review of Books "The moral core of Walser's art is the refusal of power; of domination.... Walser's virtues are those of the most mature, most civilized art. He is a truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer." --Susan Sontag "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place." --Hermann Hesse "A writer of considerable wit, talent and originality .... recognized by such impressive contemporaries as Kafka, Brod, Hesse and Musil .... [and] primarily known to German literary scholars and to English readers lucky enough to have discovered [his work] .... [Walser's tales] are to be read slowly and savored .... [and] are filled with lovely and disturbing moments that will stay with the reader for some time to come." --Ronald De Feo, The New York Times, "The moral core of Walser's art is the refusal of power; of domination.... Walser's virtues are those of the most mature, most civilized art. He is a truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer." --Susan Sontag "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place." --Hermann Hesse "A writer of considerable wit, talent and originality .... recognized by such impressive contemporaries as Kafka, Brod, Hesse and Musil .... [and] primarily known to German literary scholars and to English readers lucky enough to have discovered [his work] .... [Walser's tales] are to be read slowly and savored .... [and] are filled with lovely and disturbing moments that will stay with the reader for some time to come." --Ronald De Feo, The New York Times
Copyright Date
2016
Afterword by
Whalen, Tom
Lccn
2016-011944
Dewey Decimal
833.912
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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