Speaking to the Rose - Robert Walser Stefan Themerson inky stains

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interviews with writers (Jacques Sternberg was the literary editor)

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whose work he had admired for many years

Speaking to the Rose - Robert Walser Stefan Themerson inky stainsSpeaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912 1932 by Robert Walser, translated by Christopher Middleton ISBN 9780803298330 paperback from Bison Books. *** After a wandering, precarious life during which he produced poems, essays, stories, and novels, Walser entered an insane asylum, saying, I am not here to write, but to be mad. Many of the unpublished works he left were in fact written in an idiosyncratically abbreviated script that was for years dismissed