num_pages: 141
description: The Robber, Robert Walser’s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby’s mouth as an ashtray. Walser’s novel spoofs the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.
language: English
title: The Robber
titlecomplete: The Robber
genres: Classics, Roman, Modern Classics, Novels, German Literature, Germany, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 628
publisher: Bison Books