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Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the microscripts were in time discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of antique German script: a whole story was deciphered on the back of a business card. These twenty-five short pieces address schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, elegant jaunts, the radio, swine, jealousy, and marriage proposals.Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-139780811220330
eBay Product ID (ePID)129241576
Product Key Features
Book TitleMicroscripts
IllustratorMaira Kalman
AuthorRobert Walser
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories, Books
Publication Year2012
Number of Pages160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height224mm
Item Width163mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRobert Walser
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States