/lit/ - Literature

>>7951750
If being admired by other authors is the criterion, Robert Walser is definitely noteworthy. The usual pitch with him is that he's a modernist once loved by many German authors we now admire, e.g. Kafka, Musil, and Benjamin, but ultimately not famous at all. More recently he has a slew of proponents, like Gass, Sebald, Sonntag, and Coetzee.

He's wonderful and insanely prolific, writing thousands of small stories, but also a few novels. He's remarkable for being by far the closest kin to Kafka in style. Jakob von Gunten is his most famous, but probably my favorite story ever is his "Kleist in Thun," though I'm not sure a decent translation of it exists yet.