Christopher Middleton è un poeta e traduttore la cui opera esplora le complessità dell'esperienza umana attraverso un linguaggio attentamente elaborato. La sua poesia spesso si confronta in un dialogo con la tradizione letteraria europea, mantenendo un tono distintivo e introspettivo. La maestria di Middleton risiede nell'intrecciare considerazioni filosofiche con immagini evocative, offrendo ai lettori un incontro profondo e stimolante. Il suo esteso lavoro di traduzione ha arricchito anche il panorama letterario, rendendo accessibili opere chiave della letteratura in lingua tedesca a un pubblico di lingua inglese.
Die Reihe P bietet eine Sammlung zeitgenössischer Lyrik, die bedeutende internationale Stimmen der modernen Poesie umfasst. Durch sorgfältige Nachdichtungen wird den deutschen Lesern ein Zugang zu diesen wichtigen lyrischen Werken ermöglicht, wodurch die Vielfalt und Tiefe der aktuellen Poesieszene erlebbar wird.
Published in 1908, the novel is a notebook, a boy?s impressions of life at the school for servants run by the brother and sister Benjamenta. The lesson of the school is humility and the rejection of power and ambition. It is a lesson that the narrator, Jakob von Gunten, learns well. From his vantage point, he is able to see through the absurd posturings of his fellow students. Like his creation Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser understood of the attractions of infinitesimal smallness and kept well away from the corruptions and temptations of literary life. An outsider who spent his last twenty-seven years in an asylum, Walser was a writer?s writer whose work was much admired by Kafka, Hesse and Mann. His voice appeals to all those who savour silence in an epoch of deafening noise. Now a major feature film directed by the Quay Brothers, Institute Benjamenta is Walser?s masterpiece. Ninety years after its first publication, this edition offers the chance to read a truly extraordinary classic.