In her preface to Robert Walser's "Selected Stories", Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing.
- ISBN10 1466834951
- ISBN13 9781466834958
- Publish Date 30 October 2012 (first published 1 January 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Format eBook
- Language English