Writing as Postponement

Andrea Scrima, Rev. of The Walk by Robert Walser, The Rumpus 23 July 2012

Throughout Der Spaziergang, walking coincides with the act of writing, of telling a story; it also serves to deflect attention from the essential matter at hand, which becomes clear in the book’s closing pages. And so writing becomes a means of escaping life, its method continuous postponement.

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