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Management number 231923046 Release Date 2026/06/18 List Price US$7.00 Model Number 231923046
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Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. 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. Read more

ISBN10 0811220338
ISBN13 978-0811220330
Edition Reprint
Language English
Publisher New Directions / Christine Burgin
Dimensions 6.4 x 0.6 x 8.8 inches
Item Weight 2.31 pounds
Print length 160 pages
Publication date November 21, 2012

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