najbardziej-odległe: List of short stories by Robert Walser

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This is a list of short stories, feuilletons, and prose pieces written by the Swiss author Robert Walser. It intends to include all non-novel prose works that have been translated into English and published in collections, and is organized by the date of English collection. Because Walser's short non-novel prose works do not neatly fit the common categories of short story or non-fiction, the article title uses the term "short story" only for broad convenience. (Also see: main article discussion of Walser's format and genre.)

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The Mighty Walser: From a Short Story by Robert Walser, a Choreographer and Director Have Made a Mesmerizing Piece of “Perambulatory Poetics.”. By Christmas Day 1956, when his frozen body was found by schoolchildren in a field of snow near the asylum where he had resided for more than twenty years, the Swiss writer Robert Walser had been largely forgotten. There had been a time when the failed actor and former butler, born in 1878, was well known among Europe’s literary intelligentsia: Robert Musil, Herman Hesse, Stefan Zweig, Franz Kafka, and Walter Benjamin all admired his short stories and novels. During the 1920s, though, he was increasingly afflicted by hallucinations. In 1933 he enter…

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Susan Lee Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999). Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or traveling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about literature, cinema, photo…

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Speaking to the Rose is a 2005 English-language short story collection of 50 works by the Swiss author Robert Walser, including feuilletons, short stories, prose pieces, and a poem. The works are translated by Christopher Middleton. The book is published by the University of Nebraska Press. The included works date from 1912 to 1932 and focus on Walser's pieces that hadn't been previously collected in book form. The book includes 14 translations from the "pencil area" or "microscripts" (aka the B texts or "Bleistiftgebiet"), which were manuscripts Walser had written in a tiny coded script on random papers and cards.

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Robert Walser (Swiss Standard German: [ˈvalzər]; 15 April 1878 – 25 December 1956) was a German language Swiss writer noted for writing four novels (one published posthumously) and a large number of feuilletons, short stories, and causeries. His unconventional, sometimes enigmatic works were appreciated by contemporaries such as Walter Benjamin, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil and Kurt Tucholsky. He additionally worked as a copyist, an inventor's assistant, a butler, and in various other low-paying trades. After marginal early success in his literary career, the popularity of his work gradually diminished through the 1920's, making it increasingly difficult for him to support himse…