Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
141
Language
English
Published
Mar 1, 2000
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803247893
ISBN-13
9780803247895
Description
The Robber , Robert Walser’s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby’s mouth as an ashtray. Walser’s novel spoofs the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.