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Microscripts

Microscripts

by Robert Walser and Maira Kalman
Paperback
Age range: 18+ years old Publication Date: 11/12/2012

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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 card. These twenty-five short pieces address schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, elegant jaunts, the radio, swine, jealousy, and marriage proposals.
ISBN:
9780811220330
9780811220330
Category:
Classic fiction
Age range:
18+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11-12-2012
Language:
English, German
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
160
Dimensions (mm):
224x163x15mm
Weight:
0.38kg
Robert Walser

Robert Walser was born in Switzerland in 1878 and worked as a bank clerk before becoming a writer. In 1929 he was diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia and was admitted to Waldau psychiatric hospital. In 1933 he was transferred against his will to the sanitorium at Herisau, where he gave up on writing. Walser died there on Christmas Day, 1956.

Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman is the author and illustrator of numerous books for children, including Looking at Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything. She is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and illustrated Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style. 

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