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Alive-And-Dreaming

This isn't a very well known book, but it is a very different read. It's available for free on the internet, so other than hating Robert Walser, there really isn't any reason to not read it. Short synopsis:

Jakob is a young man attending a bizarre school to train servants (butlers) for upper class families. We are never certain if it is the school that is so odd or Jakob. He decides the other teachers "either do not exist, of they are still asleep, or they seem to have forgotten their profession". All of the classes are taught by Herr Benjemata or his sister Fraula. The students are basically prisoners, even though they can leave at any time.

Take that premise, and have it written by Franz Kafka in a good mood while on magic mushrooms and you basically have the book. The narritive becomes less and less there as the book goes on until finally it crescendoes in a cacophany of wierdness the likes of which have scarecly been seen outside of the Beatles movie "Yellow Submarine". Check it out, it's worth your time.

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extracrispy

Well, how about an inability to read German? (I can find no English translation free on the internet.)

I do like what little Walser I've read in the (distant) past, however.

extracrispy