The Microscripts
Walser, Robert
ISBN 10: 0811218805 ISBN 13: 9780811218801
Editore: New Directions / Christine Burgin, 2010
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Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high, came to light only after the author’s death in 1956. At first considered a secret code, the microscripts were eventually discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of a German script: a whole story could fit on the back of a business card.
Selected from the six-volume German transcriptions from the original microscripts, these 25 short pieces are gathered in this gorgeously illustrated co-publication with the Christine Burgin Gallery. Each microscript is reproduced in full color in its original form: the detached cover of a trashy crime novel, a disappointing letter, a receipt of payment. Sometimes Walser used the pages of small tear-off calendars (but only after cutting them lengthwise and filling up each half with text). Schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, the radio, pigs (and how none of us can deny being one), jealousy, Van Gogh and marriage proposals are some of Walser’s subjects. These texts take strength from Walser’s motto: “To be small and to stay small.”
Informazioni sull?autore: Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956), one of the major European writers of the early twentieth century, worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before writing as many as seven novels and more than a thousand stories. Forcibly hospitalized in 1933 with a now much disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia, he spent the final twenty-three years of his life in an institution.
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Titolo: The Microscripts
Casa editrice: New Directions / Christine Burgin
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
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The Microscripts
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Condizione: acceptable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may be missing bundled media. Codice articolo 3O6XBG0010SE_ns
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Microscripts
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New Directions / Christine Burgin, New York, 2010
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Condizione: Fine. 159, col illus. . HB. 8vo, original boards with inset microscript illustration to front board. Fine in d/w (in removable protective sleeve). Translated from the German with an introduction by S. Bernofsky. Afterword by W. Benjamin. First edition. A remarkable literary artifact and one of the most haunting documents of modernism. Microscripts gathers 25 of Swiss writer Robert Walser's late, miniature prose pieces - written in a near-illegible 'microscript' hand on scraps of paper, envelopes, and receipts during his years of self-imposed obscurity. These brief narratives, parables, and observations - often no longer than a page - glitter with Walser's signature irony, humility, and whimsical precision.Themes of anonymity, the beauty of the everyday, and the dignity of smallness run throughout. Beneath their light tone lies an extraordinary psychological and artistic compression: Walser turns the fragmentary into the universal.This Illustrated edition reproduces the original handwritten scraps alongside English translations, inviting readers to experience both the text and its fragile material form. Includes transcriptions of the original German texts. [9780811218801]. Codice articolo S63520
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MICROSCRIPTS
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New Directions / Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, 2010
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. With color facsimiles of the original microsccripts (illustratore). Sewn binding in paper-covered boards, in dustjacket. 159 p. Includes bibliographical references and transcriptions of the original German texts. A nice copy with tight binding, intact hinges and ***spine witha slight lean***. No marks. A little wear and creasing to spine-ends. Unclipped dustjacket very nice, with creasing on the back flap else hardly any wear. Codice articolo 2322
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This is a clean, unmarked copy with minimal wear. Codice articolo ABE-1771703152694
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing; afterword by Walter Benjamin; dj in mylar; pictorial boards that match dj; 160 clean, unmarked pages. Codice articolo 104775
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Translated from the German and with an Introduction by Susan Bernofsky. Green hardcover with titles in black and paper facsimile of microscripts laid down on front cover. Illustrated in color and black and white. Interior fine, some light wear to bottom corners of cover. In a fine dust jacket in a mylar protector. Codice articolo 091319
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Microscripts
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New Directions / Christine Burgin, 2010
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Hard Cover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First Edition. Hardcover 1st Printing in dust jacket BRAND NEW still in publisher's shrinkwrap, no remainder mark, pristine unopened copy; 8vo; 159pp illus. Codice articolo 24379
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ROBERT WALSER: MICROSCRIPTS - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
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New York City, NY: New Directions/Christine Burgin Gallery, 2010
ISBN 10: 0811218805
ISBN 13: 9780811218801
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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 160 pages. Published in 2010. Facsimile of the author's handwritten works, presented as an Artist Book. One of the greatest books of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. It marks the very first collaboration between New Directions and Christine Burgin Gallery New York to publish Walser's art-related works, which now include several, beautifully produced books. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Robert Walser's "Microscripts" in a felicitous English translation. Known and celebrated as such because he wrote down every single page in his extremely minute handwriting. "Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. Narrow strips of paper covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high came to light only after the author's death in 1956. At first considered a secret code, the microscripts were eventually discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of German script: A whole story could fit on the back of a business card. Selected from the six-volume German transcriptions of the original microscripts, these 25 short pieces are gathered in this gorgeously illustrated publication. Each microscript is reproduced in full color in its original form: The detached cover of a trashy crime novel, a disappointing letter, a receipt of payment. Walser used the pages of small tear-off calendars (but only after cutting them length-wise and filling up each half with text). Schnapps, rotten husbands, small-town life, the radio, pigs (and how none of us can deny being one), jealousy, Van Gogh, and marriage proposals are some of Walser's subjects" (Publisher's blurb). "The incredible shrinking writer is a major 20th-century prose artist who, for all that the modern world seems to have passed him by, fulfills the modern criterion: He sounds like nobody else" (The New Yorker Magazine). "One of the profoundest products of modern literature" (Walter Benjamin). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Walser collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws while the few copies in fine condition command as much as $900. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT WALSER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0811218805. Codice articolo 18205
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