Walks with Walser

by Carl Seelig

Book Overview

After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser's friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811221393
• ISBN13: 9780811221399
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.9"