»The author’s close-ups and samplings of the imperceptible shifts, transitions, and oscillations of this prose instantiate the form of attention turned to what is on the margins, in the gaps, between the lines; an attention attuned to the quivering, the resonances, and minute shadings between words and turns of phrases, continually dissolving and recasting the space of the imaginary.« Robert Buch, German Studies Review 34/3
studierte deutsche Literatur, Komparatistik und Philosophie. Seit 2006 ist er Assistant Professor am Department of German an der Northwestern University in Evanston, IL (USA).
»Was Walser dem Leser aufgibt, ist das Hören des leisen Flüsterns und die Erwiderung von Zärtlichkeiten.«