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W. G. Sebald called Robert Walser “a clairvoyant of the small,” and nowhere is the phrase more apt than in his “microscripts.”
Secrets, Not Code: On Robert Walser's Microscripts Susan Bernofsky 9Microscripts Susan BernofskyRadio 23Swine 27If I am properly informed 34What a nice writer I ran into not long ago 35The Songstress 36The Demanding Fellow 38Somewhere and somewhen 40The Train Station (II) 42Crisis 45So here was a book again 49Is it perhaps my immaturity 53The Prodigal Son 54Usually I first put on a prose piece jacket 59My subject here is a victor 65A will to shake that refined individual 69He numbered, as might well have been true 71Journey to a Small Town 75The Marriage Proposal 83Autumn (II) 87A Sort of Cleopatra 91The failure to prize the chance 95As I was instructed by a book 99Schnapps 101New Year's Page 105Robert Walser Walter Benjamin 109About the Microscripts 115About the German Texts 118Original German texts transcribed Bernhard Echte Werner Morlang 119Notes 155Acknowledgments 159
