The Robber Free Download PDF By Robert Walser
| Title | : | The Robber |
| Author | : | Robert Walser |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 141 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0803298099 |
The Robber, Robert Walser s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self discovery It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby s mouth as an ashtray Walser s novel spoofs the stiff upper lipped European petit bourgeo The Robber, Robert Walser s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self discovery It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby s mouth as an ashtray Walser s novel spoofs the stiff upper lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview
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Robert Walser, a German Swiss prose writer and novelist, enjoyed high repute among a select group of authors and critics in Berlin early in his career, only to become nearly forgotten by the time he committed himself to the Waldau mental clinic in Bern in January 1929 Since his death in 1956, however, Walser has been recognized as German Switzerland s leading author of the first half of the twent Robert Walser, a German Swiss prose writer and novelist, enjoyed high repute among a select group of authors and critics in Berlin early in his career, only to become nearly forgotten by the time he committed himself to the Waldau mental clinic in Bern in January 1929 Since his death in 1956, however, Walser has been recognized as German Switzerland s leading author of the first half of the twentieth century, perhaps Switzerland s single significant modernist In his homeland he has served as an emboldening exemplar and a national classic during the unparalleled expansion of German Swiss literature of the last two generations.Walser s writing is characterized by its linguistic sophistication and animation His work exhibits several sets of tensions or contrasts between a classic modernist devotion to art and a ceaseless questioning of the moral legitimacy and practical utility of art between a spirited exuberance in style and texture and recurrent reflective melancholy between the disparate claims of nature and culture and between democratic respect for divergence in individuals and elitist reaction to the values of the mass culture and standardization of the industrial age 
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The Robber, Robert Walser s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self discovery It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and
141 pagesRobert Walser
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