The Tanners
Title | The Tanners PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Walser |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2009-08-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811221326 |
"The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village Voice The Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family—Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous fabric. “Walser’s lightness is lighter than light,” as Tom Whalen said in Bookforum: “buoyant up to and beyond belief, terrifyingly light.” Robert Walser—admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin—is a radiantly original author. He has been acclaimed “unforgettable, heart-rending” (J.M. Coetzee), “a bewitched genius” (Newsweek), and “a major, truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer” (Susan Sontag). Considering Walser’s “perfect and serene oddity,” Michael Hofmann in The London Review of Books remarked on the “Buster Keaton-like indomitably sad cheerfulness [that is] most hilariously disturbing.” The Los Angeles Times called him “the dreamy confectionary snowflake of German language fiction. He also might be the single most underrated writer of the 20th century....The gait of his language is quieter than a kitten’s.” “A clairvoyant of the small” W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs.
The Tanners
Title | The Tanners PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Walser |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2009-08-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 081121589X |
"The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village Voice The Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family—Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous fabric. Robert Walser—admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin—is a radiantly original author. He has been acclaimed “unforgettable, heart-rending” (J.M. Coetzee), “a bewitched genius” (Newsweek), and “a major, truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer” (Susan Sontag). Considering Walser’s “perfect and serene oddity,” Michael Hofmann in The London Review of Books remarked on the “Buster Keaton-like indomitably sad cheerfulness [that is] most hilariously disturbing.” The Los Angeles Times called him “the dreamy confectionary snowflake of German language fiction. He also might be the single most underrated writer of the 20th century....The gait of his language is quieter than a kitten’s.” “A clairvoyant of the small” W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs.
Babbling Corpse
Title | Babbling Corpse PDF eBook |
Author | Grafton Tanner |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 107 |
Release | 2016-06-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1782797602 |
In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the gaps inherent in the electronic media that pervade our lives. Vaporwave is an infant musical micro-genre that foregrounds the horror of electronic media's ability to appear - as media theorist Jeffrey Sconce terms it - "haunted." Experimental musicians such as INTERNET CLUB and MACINTOSH PLUS manipulate Muzak and commercial music to undermine the commodification of nostalgia in the age of global capitalism while accentuating the uncanny properties of electronic music production. Babbling Corpse reveals vaporwave's many intersections with politics, media theory, and our present fascination with uncanny, co(s)mic horror. The book is aimed at those interested in global capitalism's effect on art, musical raids on mainstream "indie" and popular music, and anyone intrigued by the changing relationship between art and commerce.
The Tanners' Reasons for Prohibiting the Exportation of Oak Bark Explained, Etc
Title | The Tanners' Reasons for Prohibiting the Exportation of Oak Bark Explained, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 1720 |
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Back in the Days of Tanners and Bobs
Title | Back in the Days of Tanners and Bobs PDF eBook |
Author | A. Wyze |
Publisher | |
Pages | 63 |
Release | 2019-12-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781671830332 |
A collection of nostalgic sentimental and humorous poetry with a number of original illustrations.
The Revolution in Tanner's Lane
Title | The Revolution in Tanner's Lane PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Rutherford |
Publisher | Blurb |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2019-02-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780368274152 |
This edition of The Revolution in Tanner's Lane by Mark Rutherford is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition
William Tanner of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and His Descendants
Title | William Tanner of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and His Descendants PDF eBook |
Author | George Clinton Tanner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | |
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