The Assistant - format ePub

Robert Walser a 26 ans lorsque parait son premier livre, Les rédactions de Fritz Kocher (1904). Le recueil se décline en quatre parties, illustrées par Karl Walser, frère de l’auteur et peintre alors...

Joseph Marti entre au service de Charles Tobler, qui consacre toute sa fortune aux inventions qu’il conçoit – horloge-réclame, cartouchière automatique ou siège sanitaire. Logé et nourri dans la somptueuse...

Cette soixantaine de textes, dont la moitié pour la première fois en français, donnent à entendre les réflexions lucides et subtiles de Robert Walser sur l’art musical. Envolées lyriques pour la Flûte...

« À quoi peut bien servir l’énergie, en l’absence de génie ? À propos, aujourd’hui, je me suis levé énergiquement, c’est-à-dire d’assez bonne heure, et de ce fait, je peux écarter le reproche d’être velléitaire....

Petite Prose, publié en 1917, illustre de manière exemplaire cette période charnière de la vie de Robert Walser que sont les années « biennoises », après Berlin, avant Berne. Dans ces vingt-et-un textes...

Robert Walser, le promeneur le plus passionné parmi les écrivains, a passé les 27 dernières années de sa vie en internement. Une longue période de silence, dont on ne possède presque aucun témoignage....

Dressed in his cheap, battered suit, Joseph Marti arrives at the impressive villa of Karl Tobler, an enthusiastic but ill-starred inventor, to begin employment as his clerk. Tobler is determined to finance...

L’Etang est un texte de jeunesse que Walser offrit à sa sœur sous forme manuscrite. C’est la seule œuvre que Walser ait écrite en dialecte. Elle met en scène le suicide simulé d’un adolescent, le jeune...

Immerse yourself in a literary tapestry woven by masters of the short story form. "Short Story Collection Vol. 065 (Unabridged)" presents a captivating anthology featuring Robert Walser, a Swiss writer...

Morceaux de prose, publié en 1917, est l’un des rares recueils composés par Robert Walser lui-même. L’auteur y propose des textes très brefs, écrits expressément pour être réunis en volume. De là, l’unité...

Les vingt-quatre dialogues de Félix composent une mosaïque de souvenirs. Walser y met en scène, autour de Félix, les figures des parents, des frères et sœurs, des camarades et autres familiers du monde...

La bohème à Berlin au début du siècle, quelques succès suivis d’années d’errance, de solitude, de travail harassant dans les mansardes de Bienne et de Berne, puis vingt-six années d’internement, dont...

Après ses Lettres, les Editions Zoé traduisent les proses de Walser parues dans le Berliner Tageblatt. Les quatre premiers textes (1907-1908) correspondent au genre prisé du jeune Walser : la composition....

C’est en 1917, à Bienne, que Robert Walser, au lendemain de ses années berlinoises, rassemble ces vingt-cinq proses brèves. Cette biographie éclatée d’un poète ressemble à une autobiographie stylisée....

Dans les années 1920, Robert Walser écrit exclusivement des chroniques (appelées aussi « feuilletons ») pour la presse. Toutes ne seront pas publiées : ce recueil présente une trentaine de textes, destinés...

Ce recueil, qui fait place aussi bien à l'essai qu'à la poésie, met face à face vingt et un textes et les images qui leur correspondent. Des pages d’époques, de longueur et de genres différents, qui déploient...

Les vingt-cinq proses brèves de Retour dans la neige témoignent d’une époque charnière dans l’existence de Robert Walser, qui quitte en 1913 la vie mondaine berlinoise pour rentrer en Suisse, dans sa...

Robert Walser a 26 ans lorsque parait son premier livre, Les rédactions de Fritz Kocher (1904). Le recueil se décline en quatre parties, illustrées par Karl Walser, frère de l’auteur et peintre alors...

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