The Tanners, Robert Walser's amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family-Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year ...
The Tanners, Robert Walser's amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family-Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous fabric. "Walser's lightness is lighter than light," as Tom Whalen said in Bookforum: "buoyant up to and beyond belief, terrifyingly light." Robert Walser-admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin-is a radiantly original author. He has been acclaimed "unforgettable, heart-rending" (J.M. Coetzee), "a bewitched genius" (Newsweek), and "a major, truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer" (Susan Sontag). Considering Walser's "perfect and serene oddity," Michael Hofmann in The London Review of Books remarked on the "Buster Keaton-like indomitably sad cheerfulness that is] most hilariously disturbing." The Los Angeles Times called him "the dreamy confectionary snowflake of German language fiction. He also might be the single most underrated writer of the 20th century....The gait of his language is quieter than a kitten's." "A clairvoyant of the small" W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs.
作者简介
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Robert Walser (1878–1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence working as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant while producing essays, stories, and novels. In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium―where he remained for the rest of his life. "I am not here to write," Walser said, ...
Robert Walser (1878–1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence working as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant while producing essays, stories, and novels. In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium―where he remained for the rest of his life. "I am not here to write," Walser said, "but to be mad."
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4.5，中文版《唐纳兄妹》本月已出。这部由大段的内心独白和人物念白组成的小说注定不会有太多的读者喜欢。这本书我读了很长时间，起初我怀疑瓦尔泽是否会写对话，但后来这些有意为之的长篇独白却经常使我不忍心读下去。这部自传色彩浓厚的小说塑造了与波德莱尔式的城市漫游者不同的、在现代性加速的十九世纪与二十世纪之交的另一种漫游者形象：主人公不仅游走于城市的街道，也跋涉在乡间的雪地上和星空下（——许多景物描写都很... 4.5，中文版《唐纳兄妹》本月已出。这部由大段的内心独白和人物念白组成的小说注定不会有太多的读者喜欢。这本书我读了很长时间，起初我怀疑瓦尔泽是否会写对话，但后来这些有意为之的长篇独白却经常使我不忍心读下去。这部自传色彩浓厚的小说塑造了与波德莱尔式的城市漫游者不同的、在现代性加速的十九世纪与二十世纪之交的另一种漫游者形象：主人公不仅游走于城市的街道，也跋涉在乡间的雪地上和星空下（——许多景物描写都很美妙）；他以一种解构人生和工作意义的懒散形象来抵抗现代性逻辑的压迫，并因而成为一个看似奇怪的“局外人”。掩卷时我已几乎不记得任何具体情节，却对雪夜中独行的一个身影以及主人公和他的手足们关于艺术、人生在生命中优先级的讨论印象深刻。此书也令我想起瓦尔泽诗中的“我已为之而谦恭”，它所叙写的人生谦恭而动人。 (展开)
1 有用 沁云 2023-08-28 10:00:58 美国
4.5，中文版《唐纳兄妹》本月已出。这部由大段的内心独白和人物念白组成的小说注定不会有太多的读者喜欢。这本书我读了很长时间，起初我怀疑瓦尔泽是否会写对话，但后来这些有意为之的长篇独白却经常使我不忍心读下去。这部自传色彩浓厚的小说塑造了与波德莱尔式的城市漫游者不同的、在现代性加速的十九世纪与二十世纪之交的另一种漫游者形象：主人公不仅游走于城市的街道，也跋涉在乡间的雪地上和星空下（——许多景物描写都很... 4.5，中文版《唐纳兄妹》本月已出。这部由大段的内心独白和人物念白组成的小说注定不会有太多的读者喜欢。这本书我读了很长时间，起初我怀疑瓦尔泽是否会写对话，但后来这些有意为之的长篇独白却经常使我不忍心读下去。这部自传色彩浓厚的小说塑造了与波德莱尔式的城市漫游者不同的、在现代性加速的十九世纪与二十世纪之交的另一种漫游者形象：主人公不仅游走于城市的街道，也跋涉在乡间的雪地上和星空下（——许多景物描写都很美妙）；他以一种解构人生和工作意义的懒散形象来抵抗现代性逻辑的压迫，并因而成为一个看似奇怪的“局外人”。掩卷时我已几乎不记得任何具体情节，却对雪夜中独行的一个身影以及主人公和他的手足们关于艺术、人生在生命中优先级的讨论印象深刻。此书也令我想起瓦尔泽诗中的“我已为之而谦恭”，它所叙写的人生谦恭而动人。 (展开)
1 有用 看不见的城市 2015-03-19 00:15:18
不知道该如何形容。。。