Looking at Pictures - Robert Walser Satoshi Kon Upon his return

Upon his return

this is the essential comics title of 2011

all these reflections

From the book’s beautifully designed pages

After reading The Houseguest―Dávila’s debut collection in English―you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long

Looking at Pictures - Robert Walser Satoshi Kon Upon his returnLooking at Pictures, by Robert Walser, translated by Susan Bernofsky ISBN 9780811224246 small 144 page hardcover from New Directions Christine Burgin *** "Written between 1902 and 1930 and, with two exceptions, previously untranslated, the pieces gathered here elaborate a nervous, slapstick sort of hack journalism that set the stage for a fabulously experimental modernist writing situation whose fans included Kafka, Musil, and Benjamin." John Kelsey,