Robert Walser was born in Switzerland on April 15, 1878. He left school at 14 and led a wandering existence working as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor’s assistant.
He was a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet whose works include Jakob von Gunten, The Assistant, and Selected Stories.
In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium—where he remained for the rest of his life.
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