Daily Dose

From Berlin Stories, edited by Philip Hensher

OUR

"Our previous governess was fat as a frog. She always seemed to be about to burst. She was English. She's still English today, of course, but the moment she took liberties, she was no longer our concern."

From The Little Berliner, by Robert Walser, translated by Harriet Watts

Daily Dose

From The Tanners, by Robert Walser, translated by Susan Bernofsky

HABIT

"'I was always in the habit,' Hedwig said to Simon in the course of the day, 'of treating you somehow as my subordinate. In their dealings with you, perhaps others do, too --you hardly give an impression of intelligence -- what people are more likely to see in you is love, and you know pretty well how that's received.'"

From Chapter 10

Daily Dose

From The Assistant, by Robert Walser, translated by Susan Bernofsky

OTHER

"In some other place and at some other hour, all this would perhaps have struck him as agreeable, instructive, nice, fine, amusing, even enchanting."

from page 143, this edition

Clerihew of a Thwarted Swiss

ROBERT WALSER

Robert Walser
Got an ulcer
Trying to do literary work
While earning his living as a little clerk.

A Caricature

Breakfast at the Bookstore with Brad and Nick #101