Table of Contents
Secrets, Not Code: On Robert Walser's Microscripts Susan Bernofsky 9
Microscripts Susan Bernofsky
Radio 23
Swine 27
If I am properly informed 34
What a nice writer I ran into not long ago 35
The Songstress 36
The Demanding Fellow 38
Somewhere and somewhen 40
The Train Station (II) 42
Crisis 45
So here was a book again 49
Is it perhaps my immaturity 53
The Prodigal Son 54
Usually I first put on a prose piece jacket 59
My subject here is a victor 65
A will to shake that refined individual 69
He numbered, as might well have been true 71
Journey to a Small Town 75
The Marriage Proposal 83
Autumn (II) 87
A Sort of Cleopatra 91
The failure to prize the chance 95
As I was instructed by a book 99
Schnapps 101
New Year's Page 105
Robert Walser Walter Benjamin 109
About the Microscripts 115
About the German Texts 118
Original German texts transcribed Bernhard Echte Werner Morlang 119
Notes 155
Acknowledgments 159
