Walks with Walser

[A]n invaluable text for any serious reader of Walser... -- Literary Hub To use a word much favoured by Walser himself, it's delightful. -- Dorian Stuber - Numero Cinq That Walser is not today among the forgotten writers we owe primarily to the fact that Carl Seelig took up his cause. Without Seelig's accounts of the walks he took with Walser, without his preliminary work on the biography, without the selections from the work he published and the lengths he went to in securing the Nachlass-the writer's millions of illegible ciphers-Walser's rehabilitation could never have taken place, and his memory would in all probability have faded into oblivion. -- W. G. Sebald Seelig kindly visited Walser and started keeping a record of his opinions, creating over the course of time an indispensable document for all those who love Walser's surprising prose, which, silent as snowfall, cries out from the nothingness. Walser-as can be observed in Seelig's book-lectured on beer and twilight. -- Enrique Vila-Matas Walks with Walser is filled with Walser's philosophy about leading a modest life, finding beauty in mundane things, and getting by with less. -- Moyra Davey Robert Walser, who spent much of his adult life in Swiss mental hospitals, is now revered for his prose miniatures and his bizarre and haunting novel, Jakob von Gunten, set in a training school for servants. These reminiscences, by his literary executor, preserve Walser s conversation, especially about writers and writing, as well as Seelig s memories of his friend trudging along like a weary Sherpa or suddenly calling for beer and twilight. -- The Chicago Tribune