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The Microscripts
The Microscripts
Author: Robert Walser
W. G. Sebald called Robert Walser ?a clairvoyant of the small,? and nowhere is the phrase more apt than in his ?microscripts.? Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered wit...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780811218801
ISBN-10: 0811218805
Publication Date: 5/25/2010
Pages: 160
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Publisher: New Directions
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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froot avatar reviewed The Microscripts on + 178 more book reviews
This book was fascinating. A glimpse into the rants and writings of this cryptic genius or lunatic? Either or, this read is not boring as I expected, complete with picture samples and translations. This man actually had unintentionally created complex graphic design on a cryptic level.


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