Microscripts
By: Robert Walser ; translated from the German and with an introduction by Susan Bernofsky ; afterword by Walter Benjamin
Contributors: Bernofsky, Susan
Publisher: New Directions; Christine Burgin Gallery
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780811218801
Work titles: Aus dem Bleistiftgebiet
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Includes transcriptions of original German texts.
Table of contents: title: Secrets, not code : on Robert Walser's microscripts  -- Susan Bernofsky; title: Radio --; title: Swine --; title: If I am properly informed --; title: What a nice writer I ran into not long ago --; title: The songstress --; title: The demanding fellow --; title: Somewhere and somewhen --; title: The train station (II) --; title: Crisis --; title: So here was a book again --; title: Is it perhaps my immaturity --; title: The prodigal son --; title: Usually I first put on a prose piece jacket --; title: My subject here is a victor --; title: A will to shake that refined individual --; title: He numbered, as might well have been true --; title: Journey to a small town --; title: The marriage proposal --; title: Autumn (II) --; title: A sort of Cleopatra --; title: The failure to prize the chance --; title: As I was instructed by a book --; title: Schnapps --; title: New year's page --; title: Robert Walser -- Walter Benjamin.