ISBN: 9780811215909 - the assistant (new directions paperbook, band 1071) (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 320 pages. 7.00x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 320 pages. 7.00x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ('dazzling'), Guy Davenport ('a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer'), and Hermann Hesse ('If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place'). Charged with compassion, and an utterly unique radiance of vision, Walser is as Susan Sontag exclaimed 'a truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer.'The Assistant is his breathtaking 1908 novel, translated by award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Joseph, hired to become an inventor's new assistant, arrives one rainy Monday morning at Technical Engineer Karl Tobler's splendid hilltop villa: he is at once pleased and terribly worried, a state soon followed by even stickier psychological complexities. He enjoys the beautiful view over Lake Zurich, in the company of the proud wife, Frau Tobler, and the delicious savory meals. But does he deserve any of these pleasures The Assistant chronicles Joseph's inner life of cascading emotions as he attempts, both frantically and light-heartedly, to help the Tobler household, even as it slides toward financial ruin. Tobler demands of Joseph, 'Do you have your wits about you !' And Joseph's wits are in fact all around him, trembling like leaves in the breeze-he is full of exuberance and despair, all the raptures and panics of a person 'drowning in obedience.'.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorRobert Walser (1878-1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence working as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor s assistant whi.