Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories
Robert Walser
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. They are strung together like
consciousness, idiosyncratic and vulnerable, genuine in their irony,
wistful in their humor. 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.
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. They are strung together like
consciousness, idiosyncratic and vulnerable, genuine in their irony,
wistful in their humor. 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.
年:
2016
出版社:
New York Review Books
语言:
english
ISBN 10:
1681370174
ISBN 13:
9781681370170
文件:
EPUB, 1.45 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2016
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