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The Tanners (1907)

door Robert Walser

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The Tanners, Robert Walser's amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family--Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous fabric. "Walser's lightness islighter than light," as Tom Whalen said in Bookforum: "buoyant up to and beyond belief, terrifyingly light." Robert Walser--admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin--is a radiantly original author. He has been acclaimed "unforgettable, heart-rending" (J.M. Coetzee), "a bewitched genius" (Newsweek), and "a major, truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer" (Susan Sontag). Considering Walser's "perfect and serene oddity," Michael Hofmann inThe London Review of Books remarked on the "Buster Keaton-like indomitably sad cheerfulness [that is] most hilariously disturbing."The Los Angeles Times called him "the dreamy confectionary snowflake of German language fiction. He also might be the single most underrated writer of the 20th century....The gait of his language is quieter than a kitten's." "A clairvoyant of the small" W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs.… (meer)
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I love this book, the story of an awkward character and his brother guided by his “heart”. And one of the most captivating night walks I ever read. ( )
  yates9 | Feb 28, 2024 |
«Non sono niente altro se non uno che ascolta e attende, come tale però perfetto, perché ho imparato a sognare mentre attendo».
p. 275

«Non ho nessuna paura di prendere anche io una forma, ma formarmi definitivamente è una cosa che desidero fare il più tardi possibile».
p. 276

Questo è il mio secondo Walser. Ci ho messo un po' a tornare a questo autore perché cinque anni fa La passeggiata proprio non mi era piaciuto. Mi ero sentito obbligato a leggere Walser per l'ampio coro di lodi che continuavo a trovare in riferimenti culturali per me importanti, ma il mio giudizio finale sul libro era stato negativo, espresso dall'aggettivo "adolescenziale". Ora torno a questo autore con un'opera più ampia e "solida" (benché precedente) e apprezzo - credo - quanto cinque anni fa non riuscivo ad amare. La piacevole sensazione è quella di aver limato alcune mie asprezze e rigidità che avevo accumulato ed essere tornato a un senso dello stupore che posso definire, di nuovo, "adolescenziale". E stavolta uso il termine in chiave positiva. L'aspetto che più ho apprezzato di questo libro (pur appesantito, devo dirlo, da dialoghi e soliloqui troppo lunghi e ridondanti) è la capacità di descrivere l'inatteso dell'incontro, vero meccanismo narrativo che sorregge l'intrecciarsi delle vicende dei cinque fratelli Tanner. In questo senso, questo libro è un oggetto piacevolmente misterioso, pieno di svolte narrative in cui è il caso a determinare quanto seguirà. Non do un voto pieno a questa mia lettura per il motivo citato sopra (trovo il libro troppo lungo), ma aver trovato e apprezzato questa diversa chiave di lettura dello stupore in Walser è prezioso e mi guiderà senz'altro a leggere qualcos'altro di suo. ( )
  d.v. | May 16, 2023 |
Errance et auto distanciation... Étrange roman d'un étrange romancier sur un étrange personnage. Oui cela a du charme, mais aussi génère aussi un peu d'ennui. ( )
  Nikoz | Apr 10, 2015 |
Ci avevo gia' provato in passato, ci ho riprovato ora. Ma sembra proprio che Walser non sia una lettura per me.
Simon è soave come un monaco zen, ma tutta questa natura, e sentimenti, e arrossamenti pudici, e Klara che ma non sembra ma di fatto è un po' zoccola, e i monti, e la luna, e il sole, e i dipinti, e le poesie.
Ecchepalle.
Manca solo che esca Heidi con le sue caprette poi abbiamo fatto filotto.
Ho bisogno di periodi corti, illetterati, veloci, moderni, catatonici. Devo ritirare fuori qualche libro di Lansdale e lasciare gli svizzeri ai loro orologi a cucu' (cit.). ( )
  bobparr | Dec 14, 2014 |
The Tanners has a wonderful lightness of tone that is vivid and delivers rich insights. The novel moves quickly along delighting the reader. The theme seems to be about the inability of conformity to make us happy; it is also a meditation on work and idleness, self-exile and esthetic joy—especially of the natural world but also of artistic expression. Protagonist Simon Tanner is one of the great free spirits of literature. His speeches are a delight and at times quite funny. He speaks to authority with all the headstrong yet polite resolve we usually fail to muster in life. The central concern of the characters seems to be one of ecstatic engagement with the world, which they achieve with a giddy ebullience. I am reminded of Lacan's "scopophilia" in the very conscious way Simon casts his gaze about—and exults in—his surroundings. The novel's key device seems to be longish first-person monologues. Be advised, however, there's not much of a plot, which will be an obstacle for some readers.

The novel was written by Walser when he was in his twenties yet there can be no question of its maturity. Walser was greatly admired by Franz Kafka and his work at times seems a crisper, less cluttered version of the more famous writer's; though it should be stressed that Walser's is a unique voice in fiction. The best thing one can say about a writer is that there's is no one quite like him or her, and this very much applies to Walser. In the late 1920s Walser began to hear voices and in 1929 was consigned to Waldau, an asylum near Bern. He was discharged in 1933 but never again took up the pen with alacrity. The many years of eight-to-ten hour writing days were over. The book includes a major essay by W.G. Sebald that I have not come across elsewhere. It's mostly about Walser's The Robber but it addresses his work in general terms as well. Recommended with great brio. ( )
  William345 | Jun 11, 2014 |
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AuteursnaamRolType auteurWerk?Status
Robert Walserprimaire auteuralle editiesberekend
Bernofsky, SusanVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Bichsel, PeterNawoordSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Charvát, RadovanVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Fleckhaus, WillyOmslagontwerperSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Ruberl, VittoriaVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Sebald, W.G.IntroductieSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
וולק, ארזVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
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The Tanners, Robert Walser's amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family--Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous fabric. "Walser's lightness islighter than light," as Tom Whalen said in Bookforum: "buoyant up to and beyond belief, terrifyingly light." Robert Walser--admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin--is a radiantly original author. He has been acclaimed "unforgettable, heart-rending" (J.M. Coetzee), "a bewitched genius" (Newsweek), and "a major, truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer" (Susan Sontag). Considering Walser's "perfect and serene oddity," Michael Hofmann inThe London Review of Books remarked on the "Buster Keaton-like indomitably sad cheerfulness [that is] most hilariously disturbing."The Los Angeles Times called him "the dreamy confectionary snowflake of German language fiction. He also might be the single most underrated writer of the 20th century....The gait of his language is quieter than a kitten's." "A clairvoyant of the small" W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs.

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