Comedies

The book "Comedies" is a collection of dramolette by Swiss writer Robert Walser, which presents scenes, characters, and situations that comment on the brutality of fairy tales, the impossibilities of love, and the dark fate of the Christ child. It is celebrated by devoted fans of Walser, who appreciate his unique sensibility and innovations in form.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 294 pages
Publication date: 05 August 2022
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little-known work has been translated into English, readers have discovered a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildering era.

The short plays presented here, inspired by the German theater Walser enjoyed in his youth, while never meant to be performed, present scenes, characters, and situations that comment on the brutality of fairy tales, the impossibilities of love, the dark fate of the Christ child (and Walser himself), and more. At the same time, like all of Walsers work, they are shot through with a humor that is wholly genuine despite its shades of darkness. Gathering all of Walsers plays, as well as his later, fragmentary dramatic writings, Comedies will be celebrated by the many devoted fans of this lately rediscovered master.

Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little-known work has been translated into English, readers have discovered a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildering era.

The short plays presented here, inspired by the German theater Walser enjoyed in his youth, while never meant to be performed, present scenes, characters, and situations that comment on the brutality of fairy tales, the impossibilities of love, the dark fate of the Christ child (and Walser himself), and more. At the same time, like all of Walsers work, they are shot through with a humor that is wholly genuine despite its shades of darkness. Gathering all of Walsers plays, as well as his later, fragmentary dramatic writings, Comedies will be celebrated by the many devoted fans of this lately rediscovered master.

Dimension: 8 x 5 x 1 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803090498