I’m here to be mad
Christopher Benfey: Robert Walser, 10 May 2018
Walks with Robert Walser
by Carl Seelig, translated by Anne Posten.
New Directions, 127 pp., £11.99, May 2017,978 0 8112 2139 9 Show More
by Carl Seelig, translated by Anne Posten.
New Directions, 127 pp., £11.99, May 2017,
Girlfriends, Ghosts and Other Stories
by Robert Walser, translated by Tom Whalen, Nicole Köngeter and Annette Wiesner.
NYRB, 181 pp., £9.99, October 2016,978 1 68137 016 3 Show More
by Robert Walser, translated by Tom Whalen, Nicole Köngeter and Annette Wiesner.
NYRB, 181 pp., £9.99, October 2016,
“... in a mental asylum in the Alpine village of Herisau. Every few months, his fellow Swiss writer Carl Seelig, who became his guardian and literary executor, arrived by train; the two men walked and had meandering conversations, Wanderungen in both terrain and language. Seelig’s memoir is specially welcome in ... ”
