9780811220330-0811220338-Microscripts

Microscripts

ISBN-13: 9780811220330
ISBN-10: 0811220338
Edition: Reprint
Author: Robert Walser
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: New Directions / Christine Burgin
Format: Paperback 160 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780811220330
ISBN-10: 0811220338
Edition: Reprint
Author: Robert Walser
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: New Directions / Christine Burgin
Format: Paperback 160 pages

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Microscripts (ISBN-13: 9780811220330 and ISBN-10: 0811220338), written by authors Robert Walser, was published by New Directions / Christine Burgin in 2012. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Microscripts (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.59.

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Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

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.
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