Robert Walser: Walking into the Landscape

Robert Walser was a writer and poet who led an itinerant life until he was admitted to a mental hospital. The contemplation of Nature and the environment are the focus of his vital concerns. Stroll through the woods and the long walks between towns are part of his life and appear in all his work. Obsessed by insignificance, his stories are full of anonymous people working in domestic service, people who deny any self-assertion and only want their disappearance. His micrograms, written exclusively in pencil, are literary landscapes filled with long circumlocutions, full of banalities and unexpected gifts. Walser criticizes the progress and development that destroy natural harmony and proposes a simple life in dialogue with nature.