Shame and Identity in Robert Walser’s “The Robber”
Authors
Yuan Gao
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Yuan Gao
Available Online December 2018.
- DOI
- 10.2991/icassee-18.2018.104How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- The Robber; Robert Walser; shame
- Abstract
“The Robber” is a novel of the Swiss writer Robert Walser, written in his own unique “microscript”. The novel was discovered 12 years after his death and deciphered and published 4 years after then. This novel describes the situation of a writer who was marginalized by the society. The language, structure, content and materiality of this novel are different from the three novels Walser published in his lifetime. From the perspective of cultural anthropology, this article chooses the keyword “shame” and analyzes the protagonist and narrator in this novel, trying to interpret Walser’s aesthetics of shame.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yuan Gao PY - 2018/12 DA - 2018/12 TI - Shame and Identity in Robert Walser’s “The Robber” BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 509 EP - 512 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icassee-18.2018.104 DO - 10.2991/icassee-18.2018.104 ID - Gao2018/12 ER -