Walking with Walser

★Robert Walser, the "poet with a fate like snow", was posthumously named the founder of modern German literature. He worked as a clerk, a servant, served in the military, entered a lunatic asylum, and finally died in the snow; but he was admired by Kafka, praised by Hesse, and praised by Benjamin. Swiss German writer Robert Walser is known as the founder of modern German literature. Kafka is just a special case of Walser's type. ——Muzierwalzer hid in the hospital and never got involved in world affairs, which makes sense. He either saved himself from a madhouse or was starved to death by a Swiss professor and radio station manager. Although these people have good jobs, they cannot write a sentence as beautiful as Walser's. ——Hesse It is precisely in the works of Robert Walser that we first notice an extraordinary and indescribable desolation. This nothingness is weight, this chaos is perseverance—these are the last facts a reader can think of when reading Walser's work. ——Benjamin★The only true record of the last twenty years of Walser's life, the diary of a "walker who missed time" and his best friend for twenty years. In 1929, he hid in a mental hospital and stayed away from worldly affairs for the rest of his life. Since 1936, Carl Zelich walked with Walser and wrote a diary, recording the master's precious quotes, which became the only true record of Walser's last twenty years of life. ★ Designer Yamakawa uses light colors to restore the texture of the past. This German-style square-ridged hardcover pocket book can be carried with you and flipped, suitable for short chapter reading in a diary style. It contains multiple historical photo illustrations to restore the ordinary life of the great writer and how he used walking to resist the loneliness of life. [Celebrity Recommendation] Today, Walser has not become a forgotten writer, mainly due to the efforts of Carl Zelich for his career. Without Zelich's account of his walks with Walser, without his preliminary work on the biography, without his published selections of his writings and his decoding of Walser's manuscripts - Walser's recovery would not have been possible, and his memory would likely have faded. ——W. G. Sebald's [Karl Zelich's] private primary sources are the closest thing we have to Walser's memoirs. The questions he asked Walser, some about his personal and professional history, some about his literary and political views, were like those of an oral historian, and Walser trusted his companion and answered calmly, coloring the conversation with his characteristic humor and unusual observations. --Sarah Cowan, Bookforum "A Walk with Walser" exemplifies Walser's philosophy of living a humble life, finding beauty in the mundane, and living with less. ——Moira David [Introduction] In 1929, Swiss German writer Robert Walser hid in a mental hospital and stayed away from the world for the rest of his life. In 1933, Walser closed the book. He said that he was not here to write, but to go crazy. If he wanted to write, he would not come here. He turned to another favorite activity: hiking. Since 1936, Carl Zelich visited regularly, walked with Walser, and wrote a diary, which became a part of Walser's life.