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The Quest for Christa T.

The Quest for Christa T.

1979 ·
·3.7·526 Ratings ·185 Pages
“ Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than the silience. ” ― BUDDHA
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  • Selected Stories

    2002·
    ·4.22·1,105 Ratings
    How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a Paul Klee in words, maker of droll, whimsical, tender, and heartbreak
  • Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932

    2005·
    ·4.29·109 Ratings
    The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, “If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place,” Robert Walser (1878–1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his merit
  • The Walk

    1992·
    ·3.85·477 Ratings
    'For me the sketches I produce now and then are shortish or longish chapters of a novel. The novel I am constanly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.? One of the great writers of
  • Jakob von Gunten

    1999·
    ·4.01·2,606 Ratings
    The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays and four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is wid
  • Selected Letters

    1996·
    ·4.1·55 Ratings
    This collection of more than two hundred of Nietzsche’s letters offers a representative body of correspondence on subjects of main concern to him—philosophy, history, morals, music and literature. Also included are letters of biographical interest whi
  • Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice

    1988·
    ·3.77·175 Ratings
    Felice Bauer was Kafka's first great love and the inspiration for his first great fiction. Six weeks after they met, he wrote "The Judgment" for her in one night of feverish activity. Kafka always inferred to the traumatic, public breaking-off of their en
  • The Parable Of The Blind

    1989·
    ·3.57·55 Ratings
    Inspired by Parabel der Blinden (1568), a painting by Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel, the novel tells the story of the work's creation from the point of view of the six blind men depicted in the painting. The story is recounted in the present tense,
  • Looking at Pictures

    2015·
    ·4.1·109 Ratings
    A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau,
  • Medea

    1998·
    ·3.87·979 Ratings
    Medea is among the most notorious women in Greek tragedy - a woman who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In this novel, Wolf explodes the myth, offering modern readers a portrayal of a fiercely independent woman ensnared in a political batt
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