139 pages
English language
Published June 9, 2012 by New York Review Books.
In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram.
Writing like this makes you love life. It made me want to write about any mundane thing with the same romanticism and positivity Walser approached his life with. What more can you want from a book than that?
Full review: specual.me/posts/berlinstories/
