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.