Such a Façade, Madame, Is Odd: Late Poems and a Lost Novella

Such a Façade, Madame, Is Odd: Late Poems and a Lost Novella is the first English translation of a “lost” work by the major Swiss modernist author Robert Walser, along with a selection of his late poems, most in English for the first time. The novella did appear in Walser’s Collected Works under the title “Diary Fragment, 1926,” but it has never been published on its own (except in Spanish); translator Damion Searls notes the problem with this title, in that the work is not a diary, not a f...