The Walk [Paperback]

A pseudo-biographical stroll through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings,Incredibly interesting and beautiful.One of the most profound products of modern literature.Walsers project is mirrored and echoed by modernitys general obsession with interiority and exploring new forms of subjectivity. We should understand Walsers poetics of smallness as being as grandiose as anything that modernity has produced.The hope that shines forth in the moments of self-knowledge, transcendence, and grace Walser describes is anything but meager: on the contrary, it is exultation the writer feels when he perceives the sublime in the tiniest details of everyday life.Robert Walser's preferred alternate version of his classic tale. In a new translation by Susan Bernofsky,