Microscripts

Author: Robert Walser & Maira Kalman

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Price : 48.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780811220330
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint : New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Weight (g) : 0.458
Publication date : 01 April 2012
Dimensions : 224mm X 163mm X 15mm
Produced in : United States
Availability date : 01 October 2012
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Product Type : books

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Author : Robert Walser & Maira Kalman
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Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1212
Illustrator : Maira Kalman
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Dewey classification : 833.912
Pages : 160
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Description

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.