Imagine my surprise to discover there was a Robert Walser event in New York tonight. I just happened to visit the archive site tonight and saw this announcement. Fortunately, the same program’s on tap in Boston on Friday, with the addition of a reading by novelist Hansjörg Schertenleib. Here are the details:

In BOSTON at
Consulate of Switzerland, swissnex Boston
420 Broadway (corner Ellery St./Broadway)
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 876 30 76
RSVP to emil@swissnexboston.org
Friday, February 27, 6:00pm

An evening combining the Visual Book program by Walo Deuber with the Reading of author Hansjörg Schertenleib from his own works; Q&A, followed by a reception offered by the Swiss consulate and the swissnex-team. A special program of the NEMLA 2009 conference.

Er, der Hut, sitzt auf ihm, dem Kopf. Robert Walser-Geschichten
Ein Sehbuch
gelesen von Bruno Ganz
dargestellt von Anja Margoni und Florian Rummel
Idee und Regie Walo Deuber
Bildegstaltung Stefan Runge
mit Musik von Daniel Fueter
Animationen Jochen Ehmann
Produktion Rose-Marie Schneider Doc Productions GmbH
Check out the trailer at www.walser-sehbuch.ch

(Always liked old Bruno in Wings of Desire.)

You’ll also may recall that Susan Bernofsky has a public lecture in on the same day in the same city. It takes place at 1 p.m. at Boston University. Here are the details on that.

More updates some day soon. I now possess a copy of The Tanners, which comes out in June, but I haven’t read it yet.

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