Microscripts

Author: Walser, Robert

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 11 December 2012 by New Directions Publishing Corporation in the United States.

Paperback / softback | 160 pages
221 x 162 x 16 | 368g

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 authors 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.