A Schoolboy's Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser's strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser's first book, "Fritz Kocher's Essays," the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser's service in World War I. Throughout, Walser's careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.
| ISBN: | 9781590176726 |
| Publication date: | 10th October 2013 |
| Author: | Robert Walser |
| Illustrator: | Karl Walser |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
| Genres: |
Shorter Reads Narrative theme: Coming of age General Fiction |