This post combines several from my archives with some additional cover scans. See the companion post Traces of Robert Walser 2, which focuses on archival photographs.
9/18/2007 post:
Here's a scan of the first English-language edition of...
This post combines several from my archives with some additional scans. See the companion post Traces of Robert Walser 1, which focuses on book covers.
Walser, circa 1898–1900
8/7/2007, one of my first posts: "I plan to post photos of my...
"Nach Natur," Robert Walser as Karl Moor, watercolor by Robert's brother Karl
I picked up the Spring 2008 issue (# 29) of Cabinet Magazine for a piece on Roger Caillois' Writing of Stones. I was surprised to find in the issue Helen Mirra's...
Note that I combined some older posts when importing them.
January
Robert Walser drawings by Guy DavenportRobert Walser - vintage 80sWandering with Robert WalserTraces of Robert WalserA Life Full of Holes (old site)The Devil to Pay in the...
ADELHEID DUVANEL (1936–96)
by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
Swiss writer and artist Adelheid Duvanel grew up in Pratteln and Liestal in the canton of Basel, where she spent her entire life. She has been compared with Swiss poet Regina Ullmann on...
Eichendorff sporting a killer haircut.
This passage from Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing wouldn't be out-of-place at the beginning of Walser's The Assistant. The unnamed hero has just had an awkward encounter with a woman he's been admiring from...
January
I am in an other worldThe Baroque InevitableA Handful of DustedIn My Distended EyesCan you spray paint your face?Ukraine KurisosasVoluntary and InvoluntaryTreatise on FairiesA Forest StoryThe eye section alone suffices...Cover Her...
Note that I combined some older posts when importing them.
August
A Journey Round My SkullBruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass Karinthy, Voyage to Faremido and CapillariaKarinthy's "Please Sir!"Robert Walser, 1898Jean...
As I promised to do in my first post on Brentano, I dug through John Fetzer's books for excerpts and quotes by this first-wave German Romantic.
In Romantic Orpheus, Fetzer tries for 300 pages to paint Brentano as a modern-day Orpheus, so many...
tadpole, I, 15
taglufon, II, 41
Tao-Teh, I, 19
tarots, II, 37
teaching, II, 30; III, 11
temperament (of painters), II, 14
Tertullian, II, 36
thirst, I, 1, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16; II, 1, 2,
15, 18, 20, 41
thought(s), I, 10, 19; (in...
James Joyce and Edith Sitwell
A Succinct Survey of Authors' Accessories and Accoutrements
by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
It is generally conceded that creativity can be engendered and enhanced by artificial agency. In the literary sphere, the...
This post originally appeared on July 30, 2008
Sometimes at night -- the Flea meditated on a certain occasion -- when, as now, I am up reading because of insomnia, I pause parenthetically in my book to think about my calling as a writer and,...
June 2011 update: See the winning entries for the 50 Watts' Polish Book Cover Contest.
50 Watts announces the Polish Book Cover Contest, asking you to "Design the Polish edition of your favorite book"
For reference, check out the many examples...
"I was a golden harp, drawn with animal strings; all types of weather put me out of tune, and the wind played me, and the sun stretched me. And love played forte so passionately that the strings ripped, ripped in such a stupid way that I can...
