Robert Walser
Swiss writer (1878–1956)
- Fame56.3
- Momentum0.0
- Switzerland rank#202
- Fame56.3
- Momentum0.0
- Switzerland rank#202
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A Swiss writer who walked away from minor literary success into total obscurity, then spent the last three decades of his life in mental institutions — yet left behind prose so strange and precise that decades after his death, readers keep finding him.
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Robert Walser was born 15 April 1878 and wrote in German while drifting through low-paying work: copyist, butler, inventor's assistant. His early books gained some traction, but by the 1920s and 1930s his audience had quietly evaporated, and writing could no longer keep him fed. A nervous breakdown ended the attempt. He spent the rest of his years in sanatoria, until his death on 25 December 1956, long after the literary world had moved on.
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