LC control no. | n 50024511 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PT2647.A64 |
Personal name heading | Walser, Robert, 1878-1956 |
Variant(s) | ואלזר, רוברט, 1878־1956 |
Associated country | Switzerland |
Birth date | 1878-04-15 |
Death date | 1956-12-25 |
Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
Found in | Author's Geschichten, 1914. Looking at pictures, 2015: ECIP data view (Robert Walser (1878-1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence working as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant while producing essays, stories, and novels. In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium--where he remained for the rest of his life. "I am not here to write," Walser said, "but to be mad") |