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The Assistant

By Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (Translator)
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By Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (Translator)
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The Assistant by Robert Walser—who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald—is now presented in English for the very first time. Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion, and an utterly unique radiance of vision, W...

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FictionLiteratureWorld FictionFiction SubjectsEuropean Fiction - GeneralConflicts - FictionGerman FictionSwiss FictionClass Conflict - Fiction20th Century German Fiction - 1901-1945