Microscripts

by Robert Walser

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811220338
• ISBN13: 9780811220330
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary