Microscripts
Author(s): Robert Walser & Maira Kalman
Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the microscripts were in time discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of antique German script: a whole story was deciphered on the back of a business card. These twenty-five short pieces address schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, elegant jaunts, the radio, swine, jealousy, and marriage proposals.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : New Directions Publishing Corporation
- : New Directions Publishing Corporation
- : 0.458
- : 01 April 2012
- : 224mm X 163mm X 15mm
- : United States
- : 01 October 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : illustrations
- : 160
- : 833.912
- : Maira Kalman
- : 1212
- : Paperback
- : Robert Walser & Maira Kalman