The Walk

Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such literary giants as:

• W.G. Sebald
• Susan Sontag
• Franz Kafka
• Herman Hesse
• J.M. Coetzee

Like Kafka and Sebald, Walser wrote about the solitude and unease of human existence. Honest, wry, and idiosyncratic, his stories are snapshots of the lives of:

• Great artists
• Poor young men
• Beautiful women
• Talking animals

Ranging from the realist to the allegorical, the short fiction collected in this volume demonstrates Walser's uncanny ability to capture both life's strangeness and its small joys.