Synopses & Reviews
Her Not All Her is a play about, from, and to the great Swiss writer Robert Walser, by the great Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It highlights what Jelinek calls andlsquo;the fundamental fragmentationandrsquo; of Walserandrsquo;s voice, revealing Walser as andlsquo;one of those people who, when they said andldquo;Iandrdquo;, did not mean themselvesandrsquo;. Presented here in a prize-winning translation by Damion Searls, it shows Jelinek to be an impassioned virtuoso reader of classic European writers. The cahier contains an essay by the Director of the Robert Walser Centre, Reto Sorg, and thirteen paintings by the British artist Thomas Newbolt.
Review
andldquo;Like many of the numbers that precede it, this cahierandrsquo;s size belies its substance, resonance, and weight. This book has resonance, a power generated and magnified by every layer of its substance. It deserves a very wide readership and it is worth owning as a work of art in itself.andrdquo;
About the Author
Elfriede Jelinek was born in Vienna in the aftermath of World War II and became a leading, if controversial, member of Austria's first generation of post-war artists.Damion Searls is a writer in English and translator from German, French, Dutch, and Norwegian. Searls has translated writers including Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Christa Wolf; his translation of Hans Keilson's Comedy in a Minor Keyand#160;was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Fiction.and#160;
Table of Contents
Her Not All Her: on/with Robert Walser
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Translated from German by Damion SearlsAfterword: In the Penal Colony
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Reto Sorg
A note on the images
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