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Now In Paperback

Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century

Finalist – National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

Masterful. . . . This balanced and meticulous account shines a bright light on a misunderstood and influential writer.” —Publishers Weekly

“In this nuanced, astute, and revelatory biography, Susan Bernofsky gives us Walser the man—mysterious, intellectually adventuresome, humble, an artist of the first order. So, too, is Bernofsky’s exceptional book: of the first order.”  —Hilton Als

“Bernofsky takes us into the heart of an artist’s life/work struggles, brilliantly illuminating Walser’s exquisite sensibility and uncompromising radical innovations, while deftly tracking how his life gradually came apart at the seams. A tragic and intimate portrait.” —Amy Sillman

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Memoirs of a Polar Bear

By Yoko Tawada

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Looking at Pictures

By Robert Walser

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The Metamorphosis

By Franz Kafka

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The End of Days

By Jenny Erpenbeck

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About Susan Bernofsky

Susan Bernofsky is a writer and a leading translator of modernist and contemporary German-language literature into English. She directs the program in Literary Translation in the MFA Writing Program at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

A Guggenheim, Cullman Center, Leon Levy Center for Biography, and Berlin Prize fellow, she is currently working on a new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

Photo credit: Richard Gehr

About Susan Bernofsky

Susan Bernofsky is a writer and a leading translator of modernist and contemporary German-language literature into English. She directs the program in Literary Translation in the MFA Writing Program at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

A Guggenheim, Cullman Center, Leon Levy Center for Biography, and Berlin Prize fellow, she is currently working on a new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

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Mar 23
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Finding a Language for the Past: From Schleiermacher to Mann

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Translation as a Poetic Act

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‘Alchimistische Transmutation’ und andere Geheimnisse der Übersetzung, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Thomas Manns Der Zauberberg

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