by Robert Walser · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518376140
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«Komödie» is Robert Walser's collection of plays and stage pieces, published by Suhrkamp in paperback (265 pages, in German).
The volume brings together short verse dramas that reinterpret Grimm's tales, such as Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, with irony and unexpected endings. It also includes early playlets, «Der Teich» and the Felix scenes, and showcases Walser's characteristic linguistic invention and humor.
It is volume 14 of the series «Sämtliche Werke in Einzelausgaben» and was published in the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch collection (no. 1114).
For readers of theater, poetry and German literature, and for those seeking ironic versions of Grimm's fairy tales.
Robert Walser was a German language Swiss writer. He additionally worked as a copyist, an inventor's assistant, a butler, and in various other low-paying trades. Despite marginal early success in his literary career, the popularity of his work gradually diminished over the second and third decades of the 20th century, making it increasingly difficult for him to support himself through writing. He eventually had a nervous breakdown and spent the remainder of his life in sanatoria.
