A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories

A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book “Fritz Kocher’s Essays” the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors overly passionate readers and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery sexual encounters on a train and Walser’s service in World War I. Throughout Walser’s careening confounding delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.