The Walk (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Walser
- First Published: 1917
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: 1917
- Setting: Switzerland
- Principal Characters: The walker
- Genres: Short fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: Perception, Communication, Walking
- Locales: Switzerland
The Story
One morning, the narrator, a writer, leaves the melancholy confines of his room to take a walk. Pleased with his suddenly “romantic and adventurous frame of mind,” he rejoices at the beauty, freshness, and goodness of the day.
His first encounter on the street is with Professor Meili, a famous scholar with a forbidding, yet sympathetic figure. Various other people catch his attention: a priest, a chemist on a bicycle, a junk dealer, an army doctor, children at play, two elegant women in short skirts, and two men in straw hats.
Pretending to be a...
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