Microscripts

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/21/2012
ISBN: 9780811220330
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.30w x 0.70d