Author: Susan Bernofsky
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator"Bernofsky takes us into the heart of an artist's life/work struggles, brilliantly illuminating Walser's exquisite sensibility and uncompromising radical innovations, while deftly tracking how his life gradually came apart at the seams. A tragic and intimate portrait."--Amy Sillman "Robert Walser is the perfect pathetic poet: pithy, awkward, drinks too much, sibling rivalrous, ambitious, broke, and mentally ill. Was he proto queer or trans, this red headed writer who next to Gertrude Stein might be the most influential writer of our moment? Riveting and heart-breaking, this biography kept me drunk for days."--Eileen Myles The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest--social outcasts and artists as well as the impoverished, marginalized, and forgotten--prompted W. G. Sebald to dub him "a clairvoyant of the small." His revolutionary use of short prose forms won him the admiration of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Robert Musil, and many others. He was long believed an outsider by conviction, but Susan Bernofsky presents a more nuanced view in this immaculately researched and beautifully written biography. Setting Walser in the context of early twentieth century European history, she provides illuminating analysis of his extraordinary life and work, bearing witness to his "extreme artistic delight."
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081121589X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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"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.
Author: Echo Bodine
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 157731705X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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In A Still, Small Voice, famed psychic Echo Bodine turns to a subject she knows deeply and is passionate about: intuition. Using humorous anecdotes and a positive, readable style, this sequel to Echoes of the Soul explores what intuition is, where it's located, what it sounds like, and how to cultivate it. The author, who comes from a family of psychics, exposes the various internalized voices that can mask one's intuition. These include the voices of parents, grandparents, peers, therapists, significant others, religious figures, and society, along with emotions such as anger, fear, guilt, and despair. The book challenges the cliche that psychic abilities and intuition are the same, or that they are evil. One chapter is devoted to the many practical benefits that come from listening to intuition; another looks at the "faith-building times" in life and how to cope with others' negative reactions to setting off on the spiritual path.
Author: Terry Iacuzzo
Publisher: Perigee Books
ISBN: 9780399532023
Category : Psychics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This is the story of the ordinary and extraordinary Sicilian family out of which sprang one of the country's most prominent psychics, Terry Iacuzzo, who has such a high-powered client list that it will remain a secret till her dying day.
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811220330
Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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A collection of previously unpublished short prose by one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century fiction. Little Snow Landscape opens in 1905 with an encomium to Robert Walser’s homeland and concludes in 1933 with a meditation on his childhood in Biel, the town of his birth, published in the last of his four years in the cantonal mental hospital in Waldau outside Bern. Between these two poles, the book maps Walser’s outer and inner wanderings in various narrative modes. Here you find him writing in the persona of a girl composing an essay on the seasons, of Don Juan at the moment he senses he’s outplayed his role, and of Turkey’s last sultan shortly after he’s deposed. In other stories, a man falls in love with the heroine of the penny dreadful he’s reading (and she with him?), and the lady of a house catches her servant spread out on the divan casually reading a classic. Three longer autobiographical stories—“Wenzel,” “Würzburg,” and “Louise”—brace the whole. In addition to a representative offering of Walser’s short prose, of which he was one of literature’s most original, multifarious, and lucid practitioners, Little Snow Landscape forms a kind of novel, however apparently plotless, from the vast unfinishable one he was constantly writing.
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser’s service in World War I. Throughout, Walser’s careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.
Author: Bill Philipps
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608684962
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Love Reaches Us in Many Ways With testimonies from everyday men and women, celebrities, business leaders, and one-time skeptics, Expect the Unexpected is an honest firsthand account of how spirits communicate with Bill Philipps, why he believes they chose him to do this, and how he works with them to ultimately convey their messages. As Philipps confirms, it is normal to ask questions about what happens to our loved ones after death and to hope to reconnect with them. He offers insight and suggestions to help you ask for and receive signs with or without a medium and shows why he is convinced that readings always contain the possibility for love, peace, healing, and hope.
Author: Debra Lynne Katz
Publisher: Living Dreams Press
ISBN: 0989094170
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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"YOU ARE PSYCHIC" has been hailed as “the psychic’s bible” and has put tens of thousands of readers on the fast track to accessing and controlling their clairvoyant and healing abilities. In this 2015 revised edition by Living Dreams Press, "You Are Psychic" continues to open the eyes of readers and reverse the “blindness” of those cut off from their greatest gifts of in-sight and healing. Topics covered include: psychic readings, Clairvoyant healing methods, communicating with your creator and your guides, Transformation, psychic protection techniques and the business of spirituality. This book will take your abilities to levels never imagined and facilitate your profound transformation into empowerment and living the life you were meant to live. The first edition of You are Psychic: The Art of Clairvoyant Reading and Healing was published by Llewelyn Worldwide in 2004 and was received with extraordinary acclaim and sold tens of thousands of copies across the globe. This improved edition has been updated to reflect the changing times of having a successful intuitive guiding business in a more technologically advanced world. It incorporates extraordinary insights of the author, whom has been conducting clairvoyant readings, trainings and mentoring sessions for thousands of clients and budding psychics for two decades. She has also collaborated with the top psychic researchers and remote viewers to conduct scientific studies, serving both as scientist and subject. In this edition, she fine-tunes techniques based upon those endeavors. One of the greatest values this book has is its normalizing and comforting effect: by sharing intimate details of her own readings along with step by step techniques, she catalyzes “breakthrough” experiences that changes lives for the better and shows readers that clairvoyance is fun, numinous and enlightening. Perhaps most importantly, those who experiment with the material in this book will gain immediate awareness of the profound connection all beings have with each other.
Author: Cyndi Dale
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738723436
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Professional clairvoyant and best-selling author Cyndi Dale has provided intuitive consulting and healing to more than 30,000 individuals, helping them lead more happy, successful, and fulfilling lives. Now she shares true personal stories and practical advice on how intuition can help you with everything from everyday concerns to major life decisions. Presented in an easy-to-follow Q&A format, the wisdom and guidance within these pages is organized into three categories: relationships, work or destiny, and health. Heartwarming, humorous, and surprisingly down to earth, Everyday Clairvoyant also offers tips and techniques for developing your own intuition, while offering insight on questions like the following: How will I know when I've met my true love? Do our children select us before birth? What are Indigo and Crystal souls? Are there ghosts? Do animals have souls? Does everyone have a spirit guide? How can I find my true life path?
