Robert Walser and the Politics of Neglect

This book’s argument is that Walser “toys” with style in ways that are not purely literary, but which carry the ambivalent resonance of politics in all its forms—cultural politics, sexual politics, class politics—both in his own time and, still, today. Once almost forgotten, the Swiss modernist author Robert Walser is now widely read and celebrated both in Europe and in the Anglo-American world. S...