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A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories by Walser, Robert [Walser, Robert] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The force of Walser’s writing derives from this simultaneous valorization of irreducible individuality and of sameness, smallness, interchangeability. In the most various terms, Walser praises monotony; it makes it wonderfully difficult to read his tone. When is he serious? When is he mocking the will to conformity? Susan Sontag has written that “The moral core of Walser’s art is the refusal of power; of domination.” And yet, paradoxically, part of the power of Walser’s art lies in how that refusal of domination interacts with his narrators’ demands to be dominated. Walser’s voice is a strange mix of exuberance and submission, lyrical abandon and self-abnegation. His refusals are antiheroic, wavering; they reveal—sometimes comically, sometimes tragically—how the desire to be ruled enters the subject, the son, the servant, the pupil.How can a writer refuse even the power of refusal, preserve his freedom while falling all over himself to give it away? Maybe the answer has to do with how Walser’s singular sentences themselves “step aside”: one of the most notable effects of his prose is how it seems to evaporate as you read. Walter Benjamin said that “each sentence has the sole purpos

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Author

Walser, Robert [Walser, Robert]

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590176726

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (149 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14