Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser
by Susan Bernofsky
✩ Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for biography
The first English-language biography of Robert Walser, one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century. In Clairvoyant of the Small, Susan Bernofsky—his award-winning translator—offers a diligently researched and delicately written account of his life and work, setting him in the context of 20th century European history and modernist literature.