Project Gutenberg 2025-05-30 Public domain in the USA. 254 Walser, Robert 1878 1956 Walser, Karl 1877 1943 Walser, Carl unk82075267 Geschichten $aLeipzig :$bKurt Wolff Verlag, $c1914. Sechs kleine Geschichten: 1. Von einem Dichter. 2. Laute. 3. Klavier. 4. 5. 6. Der schöne Platz -- Simon: Eine Liebesgeschichte -- Zwei Geschichten: Das Genie. Welt -- Mehlmann: Ein Märchen -- Seltsame Stadt -- Der Greifensee -- Der Waldbrand -- Der Park -- Illusion -- Theaterbrand -- Kerkerszene -- Lustspielabend -- Katzentheater: Ein Schlafzimmer. Flußgegend mit Turm. Eine Singspielhalle. Vornehme Straße mit Gartengitter. Die Schauspielerin. Die Talentprobe. Kleist in Thun. Wenzel. Paganini: Variation. Die Schlacht bei Sempach. Tagebuch eines Schülers. Ein Vormittag. Jana Srna, Hans Theyer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Geschichten" by Robert Walser is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book offers playful, lyrical vignettes that blend irony, tenderness, and daydream with quick shifts between art, love, nature, and city life. Recurring figures include self-regarding poets, a roving page, stage folk, and flâneurs, all hovering between illusion and the everyday. The opening of the collection moves from six miniature pieces—mocking a poet’s self-importance, personifying memory as a fragile lute, staging a charged piano lesson, and trapping artists inside their own imaginations—to a longer tale in which the shabby mandolin-player Simon becomes page to the alluring Klara and brazenly faces her looming husband. Next come two sharp fables: a threadbare “genius” who reshapes the world only to remain unhelpable, and an upside-down world of social reversal swallowed at last by divine negation. Subsequent sketches pivot between stage and street: a spent clown eclipsed by an angelic boy dancer, a too-perfect “puppet” city dismissed as unreal, a rapturous swim on a small lake, a panoramic account of a forest fire and civic frenzy, a melancholy Sunday park stroll, and an armchair voyage to Moscow that dissolves back into a quiet room. The sequence also includes a harrowing theater conflagration with a stoic rescuer, a sensual Maria Stuart monologue, and a bustling “Lustspielabend” in a playhouse that ends mid-scene. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20090921105514walser 1914 de Reading ease score: 80.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. de Swiss fiction (German) Short stories, Swiss (German) PT Text Category: Short Stories Category: German Literature 255278 2025-09-30T06:45:08.898827 text/html 228460 2025-05-30T12:23:36 text/html 6777738 2025-09-30T06:45:15.647861 application/epub+zip 6775697 2025-09-30T06:45:10.874846 application/epub+zip 243392 2025-09-30T06:45:09.677854 application/epub+zip 7209571 2025-09-30T06:45:18.992808 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 7176569 2025-09-30T06:45:14.578818 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 220642 2025-09-30T06:45:08.367821 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 200865 2025-05-30T12:23:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17416 2025-09-30T06:45:19.135769 application/rdf+xml 16738 2025-09-30T06:45:09.900872 image/jpeg 2735 2025-09-30T06:45:09.787861 image/jpeg 6470590 2025-09-30T06:45:09.037823 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia