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Walks with Walser

English

By (author): Carl Seelig

Translated by: Anne Posten

After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walsers friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations. As they strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser famously replied: Im not here to write, Im here to be mad. Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers the fullest available account of this wonderful writers inner and outer life.  See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 159g
  • Dimensions: 132 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 12 May 2017
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780811221399

About Carl Seelig

Carl Seelig (18941962) was a Swiss editor and writer and Robert Walsers friend guardian and literary executor. He was a selfless supporter of countless other writers and was also Albert Einsteins first biographer. Anne Posten is a literary translator based in New York.

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