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Nov 1, 2023Liked by Dustin Illingworth

An odd timeliness. It appears that with this essay this newsletter has reawakened after a duration of slumber, just after I finished the Bernofsky book and started The Tanners. It's clear from the essay and the biography that the short fiction and Jakob von Gunten are the glittering treasures in Walserland. I look forward to sitting down with those in due time. But why did I read the biography before reading any of the man's work? I guess some personalities are as compelling as the work they produce.

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“a sort of alpine Buster Keaton” -- brilliant.

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Nov 1, 2023Liked by Dustin Illingworth

Beautiful essay. Ordered Jakob von Gunten immediately.

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Nov 1, 2023Liked by Dustin Illingworth

Now that's one fine essay, Dustin. Walser strikes me as a character off the pages of a Hesse novel - https://glenncolerussell.blogspot.com/2018/04/girlfriends-ghosts-and-other-stories-by.html

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