The Robber
The Robber
By Robert Walser
Translated by Susan Bernofsky
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.
Paperback
141 pages
University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Originally published in 1925
5 x 8.5 inches
ISBN 9780803298095
Fiction, Satire
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