Carl Seelig

After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser's friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations. As they strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser famously replied: "I'm not here to write, I'm here to be mad." Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers the fullest available account of this wonderful writer's inner and outer life.

Walks with Walser

Las notas de Carl Seelig sobre sus Paseos con Robert Walser no tienen parangon en la historia de la literatura. Retratan a alguien que ha enmudecido, un poeta que B+tuvo el tacto suficiente como para apearse de la vidaB; . Al cumplir los cincuenta anos, Walser deja de escribir y se contenta con su vida de paciente de un sanatorio mental. Carl Seelig, que queria ayudarle a el y a su obra, en apariencia condenada al fracaso, visita regularmente a Walser en el sanatorio, y durante veinte anos B+se les autoriza a salir a pasearB; . Las notas relativas a estos paseos son inusuales, pues Seelig pone su escritura al servicio de la transmision de las autenticas palabras de Robert Walser. Nadie sabe si este paciente esta enfermo, pero, en cualquier caso, es sabio. Sus conocimientos de literatura son inmensos; sus manifestaciones dan como resultado la poetica de su propia obra; sus juicios politicos son certeros y enigmaticos. Walser pasea con Seelig por el paisaje de Appenzell y por la noche regresa almanicomio. Pero de esta tragedia brota el consuelo de este libro: B+Sin amor el hombre esta perdidoB; .La edicion reproduce seis fotografias realizadas por Carl Seelig a Robert Walser.

Paseos con Robert Walser

Wanderungen mit Robert Walser

Albert Einstein

A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.

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