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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The writer on his last walk a solitary Spaziergang through a winter landscape. He is going towards his favourite view and he means to turn back once he has seen it but he will die before he gets there. As if they know it his last words are already on the wing flocking around his steaming head like birds of passage. (1992) The Swiss writer Robert Walser spent the last twenty years of his life in a mental institution in the town of Herisau capital of the canton of Appenzell having been moved there against his will in 1933. On Christmas Day 1956 after a solitary walk to settle his dinner he collapsed on a snow-covered path and died. He was 78. The official cause of death was heart failure. When I came across a photograph of Walser’s body in J?rg Amann’s book Robert Walser: Auf der Suche nach einem verlorenen Sohn it touched me even though I had read nothing of his work.” The body lies in a field of snow. The frozen block of the photograph is a dirtier white than paper and this makes it visible on the page. There is not much else besides the snow and the body: a few posts and rails iced with snow jut into the frame from the right; in the distance running obliquely towards the top right-hand corner the pencil sketch of a fence. (SP)