Susan Sontag describes Walser as 'a good-humoured, sweet Beckett'. The more common comparison is to 'a comic Kafka'. Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing.
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Susan Sontag describes Walser as 'a good-humoured, sweet Beckett'. The more common comparison is to 'a comic Kafka'. Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing.
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Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo,
CARMARTHESHIRE,
UNITED KINGDOM
$51.83
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Reader copy. An Ex-Library Hardback with dust jacket, officially withdrawn, usual library stamps and markings. One 40mm pen mark in margin of one page otherwise in good clean condition throughout. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 47D*