Microscripts
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| Management number | 231923046 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$7.00 | Model Number | 231923046 | ||
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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. Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author’s death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the microscripts were in time discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of antique German script: a whole story was deciphered on the back of a business card. These twenty-five short pieces address schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, elegant jaunts, the radio, swine, jealousy, and marriage proposals. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0811220338 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0811220330 |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | New Directions / Christine Burgin |
| Dimensions | 6.4 x 0.6 x 8.8 inches |
| Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
| Print length | 160 pages |
| Publication date | November 21, 2012 |
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