{"product_id":"the-walk-9780811219921","title":"The Walk","description":"A pseudo-biographical \"stroll\" through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, \u003cem\u003eThe Walk\u003c\/em\u003e has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser's short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantly considered. Without walking, \"I would be dead,\" Walser explains, \"and my profession, which I love passionately, would be destroyed. Because it is on walks that the lore of nature and the lore of the country are revealed, charming and graceful, to the sense and eyes of the observant walker.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Walk\u003c\/em\u003e was the first piece of Walser's work to appear in English, and the only one translated before his death. However, Walser heavily revised his most famous novella, altering nearly every sentence, rendering the baroque tone of his tale into something more spare. An introduction by translator Susan Bernofsky explains the history of \u003cem\u003eThe Walk\u003c\/em\u003e, and the differences between its two versions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernofsky, Susan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSusan Bernofsky\u003c\/strong\u003e is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalser, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Walser\u003c\/strong\u003e (1878-1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence working as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant while producing essays, stories, and novels. In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium--where he remained for the rest of his life. \"I am not here to write,\" Walser said, \"but to be mad.\"","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552886456594,"sku":"9780811219921","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe35e438-adbd-4e3a-8297-07e041b2c94b.jpg?v=1754910522","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-walk-9780811219921","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}