…desks that do not
fit their figures, and his narrators become unemployed in order to take a stand against unusable
furniture. According to Walser’s…
…ergonomics, they work while taking a break from
work: in an interval of not working and not writing, in an interval of walking.
Unbecoming Furniture (I)…
…re-discovery
of Walser’s legendary walks 3 , Walser criticism generally writes off the supporting
role played by furniture in his writing, not only in the…
…writing perhaps always tended to produce “keine rechten Buchstaben”,
that is, they present an aberration not only from an established ortho-graphy,
but…
…‘Pult’) that do not fit his stature. Hardly a scene of
writing occurs without reference to an ill-fitting desk unbecoming of the writer seated
there. While…
…enclosing letters he has
not drafted, or where he drafts letters to which he will never sign his name. It is the site
of an abandonment, where the writer…
…frequently complain of having to stand or sit at desks that do not fit. The institutions
whose furnishings support these writers therein deprive them of their…
…Nachdenken und zu endlosem Überrechnen
weitläufiger künstlicher Muster.” 15 What sponsors this link between the weaver and the
writer is not just the…
…material – a scene of writing
but not the actual writing – and by being so unengaging that this other writing, to
which Walser can sign his name, may emerge…
…later, alongside an etching of an office scene made by Karl Walser, as the inaugural
poem of Walser’s “Gedichte”. 21 Left undated, it is not certain when…
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