“Robert, who was living as a guest in Karl’s apartment in the tony Charlottenburg district, soon developed a reputation as a big drinker and a sometimes too enthusiastic prankster. He walked up to Hugo von Hofmannsthal in a restaurant and asked the celebrated dramatist, “Can’t you forget for a bit that you’re famous?” Robert and Karl once teased Franz Wedekind—for whose Spring Awakening Karl designed the sets—so persistently that Wedekind fled a dinner party to escape them, only to get stuck in a café’s revolving door, where the brothers cornered him once more, shouting “Schafskopf!” (muttonhead) as he whirled past.”
Da introdução a Berlin Stories, colectânea de contos de Robert Walser (NYRB)
Walser devia ser impossível de aturar, mas tenho dificuldade em não simpatizar com ele.
Da introdução a Berlin Stories, colectânea de contos de Robert Walser (NYRB)
Walser devia ser impossível de aturar, mas tenho dificuldade em não simpatizar com ele.
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