{"product_id":"walser-robert-microscrippb","title":"Walser, Robert \/ Bernofsky, Susan (tr.): Microscripts","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Directions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 21, 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the microscripts were in time discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of antique German script: a whole story was deciphered on the back of a business card. These twenty-five short pieces address schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, elegant jaunts, the radio, swine, jealousy, and marriage proposals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679363969047,"sku":"9780811220330","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/61qtKCiwphL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1701464005","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/walser-robert-microscrippb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}