Looking at Pictures - Robert Walser Satoshi Kon From the book’s beautifully designed

From the book’s beautifully designed pages

A fictional enchantment

this is the essential comics title of 2011

Upon his return

Looking at Pictures - Robert Walser Satoshi Kon From the book’s beautifully designedLooking at Pictures, by Robert Walser, translated by Susan Bernofsky ISBN 9780811224246 small 144 page hardcover from New Directions Christine Burgin *** "Written between 1902 and 1930 and, with two exceptions, previously untranslated, the pieces gathered here elaborate a nervous, slapstick sort of hack journalism that set the stage for a fabulously experimental modernist writing situation whose fans included Kafka, Musil, and Benjamin." John Kelsey,