Looking at Pictures [Hardcover]

A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions,This jeweled box of a book... float[s], wonderfully, somewhere in a land between short story and criticism. Walser achieved a remarkable tone, in which perfect assurance and perfect ambiguity combine.  Everyone who reads Walser falls in love with him.  A Paul Klee in prose, a good-humoured, sweet Beckett, Walser is a truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer.  Bold and idiosyncratic.  Singulargenius.  Written between 1902 and 1930 and, with two exceptions, previously untranslated, the pieces gathered here elaborate a nervous, slapstick sort of hack journalism that set the stage for a fabulously experimental modernist writing situation whose fans included Kafka, Musil, and Benjamin. A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art