Robert Walser

Robert Walser

Robert Walser (15 April 1878 – 25 December 1956) was a German-speaking Swiss writer. Walser is understood to be the missing link between Heinrich von Kleist and Franz Kafka. As writes Susan Sontag, "at the time [of Walser's writing], it was more likely to be Kafka [who was understood] through the prism of Walser." For example, Robert Musil once referred to Kafka's work as "a peculiar case of the Walser type."Walser was admired early on by Kafka and writers such as Hermann Hesse, Stefan Zweig, and Walter Benjamin, and was in fact better known during his lifetime than Kafka or Benjamin were known in theirs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Walser has received more than 16,450 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Robert Walser is the 495th most popular writer (up from 535th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 50th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Writer.

Robert Walser is most famous for his work in the field of German Expressionism. He wrote in a variety of forms, including novels, short stories, and poetry.