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The Robber

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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.

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Product Details
University of Nebraska Press
0803247893 / 9780803247895
Hardback
833.912
01/05/2000
United States
144 pages
156 x 235 mm, 268 grams
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