Review from print: Microscripts by Robert Walser

This review first appeared in MAKE 10.

The aim of Microscripts, a recent translation of selected of Walser’s minor writings, is to bring out the material aspects of this nervousness, in texts where it takes what might be its most extreme form. The volume collects twenty-five short sketches Walser penciled in microscopic script on loose strips of paper: business cards, envelopes, duodecimo pulp fiction covers. Carefully chosen and lovingly presented, Microscripts is a moving introduction to Walser’s work at its most miniature, and most beautiful. READ MORE

Microscripts A collection of miniature prose pieces by Robert Walser Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky New Directions First published in the 1970s; Translation published 2010. 160 Pages Reviewed by Marta Figlerowicz