Microscripts

Author(s): Robert Walser & Maira Kalman

Short Stories

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.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780811220330
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • : 0.458
  • : May 2012
  • : 224mm X 163mm X 15mm
  • : United States
  • : October 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Robert Walser & Maira Kalman
  • : Paperback
  • : 1212
  • : Maira Kalman
  • : 833.912
  • : 160
  • : illustrations