The Assistant

The Assistant

by Robert Walser
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 08/11/2018

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Dressed in his cheap, battered suit, Joseph Marti arrives at the impressive villa of Karl Tobler, an enthusiastic but ill-starred inventor, to begin employment as his clerk. Tobler is determined to finance his family’s lavish lifestyle with the proceeds from his latest idea – a clock adorned with advertisements. But Tobler’s grand plans are destined for failure and the household, including Marti, refuse to acknowledge their approaching ruin.


Robert Walser claimed to have written The Assistant, a semi-autobiographical work, in just six weeks as an entry for a literary competition. The second of his few surviving novels, it is now regarded as major work of modernist literature.

ISBN:
9780141920719
9780141920719
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
08-11-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Robert Walser

Robert Walser was born in Switzerland in 1878 and worked as a bank clerk before becoming a writer. In 1929 he was diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia and was admitted to Waldau psychiatric hospital. In 1933 he was transferred against his will to the sanitorium at Herisau, where he gave up on writing. Walser died there on Christmas Day, 1956.

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