New Directions Pearls: The Walk (Paperback)

from jonfaith

Think of Knut Hamsun. Now think of him drinking and being a pacifist. The Walk explores modernity's challenges to a quiet life. The bookseller, the tax office and the tailor are among the riptides encountered by our humble man of letters, out to fill his lungs and prime his mind for poetic foment...

from proustitute

... the inward self is the only self which really exists.Walser's The Walk is anything but a light, jolly stroll: it's a trek uphill through spiraling landscapes, before the reader realizes that Walser has begun an abrupt, downward descent. The closing pages of The Walk are utterly heart-rending....

from proustitute

... the inward self is the only self which really exists.Walser's The Walk is anything but a light, jolly stroll: it's a trek uphill through spiraling landscapes, before the reader realizes that Walser has begun an abrupt, downward descent. The closing pages of The Walk are utterly heart-rending....

from MSarki

This is a superb book and very much fun to read. I was surprised at how similar the new Bernofsky translation was to the original Middleton. Upon receiving the book in the mail I discovered that she left much of what Middleton did intact. And there is nothing wrong with that at all. She explains ...

from stillatim

A wonderful little volume--short, with a fun translator back story (first translated by Middleton, but Walser re-wrote it, and Bernofsky has translated that re-write... and written an introduction about how great Middleton is, and Walser is, and it's all just very affirmative. Let me add, then, t...