The Robber - Robert Walser Christine Burgin but that figure always needed

but that figure always needed another figure

in comics or beyond

They became a couple almost immediately

In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner

The master creator of finely crosshatched illustrations and sinisterly amusing tales

The Robber - Robert Walser Christine Burgin but that figure always neededThe Robber by Robert Walser, translated by Susan Bernofsky ISBN 9780803298095 paperback from Bison Books. *** The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby's mouth as an ashtray. Walser's novel spoofs the stiff upper