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Total pages original book: 160
Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 13M16S (3.4 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the microscripts were in time discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of antique German script: a whole story was deciphered on the back of a business card. These twenty-five short pieces address schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, elegant jaunts, the radio, swine, jealousy, and marriage proposals.
Other categories, genre or collection: Fiction In Translation, Literary Studies: General, Contemporary Fiction, Classic Books & Novels, Short Story Books