Microscripts

Author/Contributor(s):	Walser, Robert ; Bernofsky, Susan ; Kalman, Maira
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date:	11/21/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the microscripts were in time discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of antique German script: a whole story was deciphered on the back of a business card. These twenty-five short pieces address schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, elegant jaunts, the radio, swine, jealousy, and marriage proposals.