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Robert Walser (1878-1956) was born into a German-speaking family in Biel, Switzerland. He led a wandering, precarious existence while writing his poems, novels, and vast numbers of the ""prose pieces"" that became his hallmark. NYRB Classics also publishes Walser's Jakob von Gunten , Berlin Stories and A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories. Tom Whalen is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, critic, and the co-editor of the Robert Walser issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction. Nicole K ngeter is a freelance translator and teacher of English and German in southwest Germany. Annette Wiesner's translations of Robert Walser have appeared in Connecticut Review, Kestrel, and Witness.
The moral core of Walser's art is the refusal of power; of domination.... Walser's virtues are those of the most mature, most civilized art. He is a truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer. Susan Sontag If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place. Hermann Hesse A writer of considerable wit, talent and originality .... recognized by such impressive contemporaries as Kafka, Brod, Hesse and Musil .... [and] primarily known to German literary scholars and to English readers lucky enough to have discovered [his work] .... [Walser's tales] are to be read slowly and savored .... [and] are filled with lovely and disturbing moments that will stay with the reader for some time to come. Ronald De Feo, The New York Times
