A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories

A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English.

Highlights of the Collection:

• Opening with “Fritz Kocher’s Essays”: A sequence from Walser’s first book, featuring the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death.
• A diverse range of stories, including:
  • Sketches of uncomprehending editors.
  • Overly passionate readers.
  • Dreamy artists.
  • Tales of devilish adultery.
  • Sexual encounters on a train.
  • Walser’s service in World War I.

Throughout the collection, Walser’s careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.