Literary Snippets #1 - The Assistant by Robert Walser

[maraisgood]

This is charming and I love that passage. I texted a friend that it was one of the funniest things I had ever read, like a bildungsroman turned inside out. And the nature description are so beautiful yet so over the top in seems it's like a parody of German Romanticism. An Odyssey of obedience and work comparable to Pessoa's Iliad of the office - The Book of Disquiet. But also tender and heartbreaking. Thanks.