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"Little Snow Landscape and Other Stories opens in 1905 with an encomium by the twenty-six- year-old Swiss author Robert Walser (1878-1956) to his Heimat and concludes in 1933 with a meditation on his childhood in Biel, the town of his birth, published in the last of his four years in the cantonal mental hospital in Waldau outside Bern. Between these two poles, the book maps Walser's outer and inner wanderings in various narrative modes, including essaylets, fables, idylls, tales of comedy and horror, monologues, travelogues, prose pieces realistic and of an otherworldly artificiality"--… (meer)
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Little Snow Landscape opens in 1905 with an encomium by the twenty-six-year-old Swiss author Robert Walser (1878-1956) to his Heimat and concludes in 1933 with a meditation on his childhood in Biel, the town of his birth, published in the last of his four years in the cantonal mental hospital in Waldau outside Bern. (Translator's Note)
Born on April 15, 1878, in Biel, Switzerland, Robert Walser left school at age fourteen to apprentice as a bank clerk. (Biographical Note)
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My gratitude as well to Subtropics, where "Rain" first appeared, and to the always thoughtful and helpful staff and management of Tarte && Tortchen on Gutbrodstrasse in Stuttgart, Germany, within whose ideal early-morning setting, over the course of more than three years, much of this book was initially translated. (Translator's Note)
On Christmas Day, 1956, twenty-three years after his removal to Herisau, he died of a heart attack while on a solitary walk on the snow-covered mountains adjacent to the clinic. (Biographical Note)
"Little Snow Landscape and Other Stories opens in 1905 with an encomium by the twenty-six- year-old Swiss author Robert Walser (1878-1956) to his Heimat and concludes in 1933 with a meditation on his childhood in Biel, the town of his birth, published in the last of his four years in the cantonal mental hospital in Waldau outside Bern. Between these two poles, the book maps Walser's outer and inner wanderings in various narrative modes, including essaylets, fables, idylls, tales of comedy and horror, monologues, travelogues, prose pieces realistic and of an otherworldly artificiality"--